found in myself a kind of ſtupidity, and want of power to reflect upon what had passed. I seemed to be, as if awakened from a dream when the senses are yet half asleep, and we only begin to doubt whether what has before passed in thoughts is real or not. The dangers that I was just now delivered from made no impression upon my mind, and what more and more convinces me I was for a time not in my perfect senses, is, that I found in myself a hard-heartedness, without the least inclination to be thankful for that signal deliverance which I had just now experienced.
From this ſtupor I was awakened by the arrival of the ſoldier, who cried out to us at some diſtance, "You must come to the Aga to the castle, all of you, as faſt as you can, the Turk is gone before you." "It will not be very faſt, if we even should do that, ſaid I; the Turk has ridden two days on a camel, and I have walked on foot, and do not know at preſent if I can walk at all." I endeavoured, at the same time, to rise and stand upright, which I did not ſucceed in, after several attempts, without great pain and difficulty. I observed the soldier was in a prodigious astonishment at my appearance, habit, and above all, at my diſtress. "We ſhall get people in town, says he, to assist you, and if you cannot walk, the Aga will ſend you a mule."
The Turk and the Greeks were cloathed much in the ſame manner; Iſmael and Michael had in their hands two monstrous blunderbuſſes. The whole town crowded after us while we walked to the castle, and could not satiate themselves with admiring a company of such an extraordinary appearance. The Aga was ſtruck dumb upon our entering
