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　　The company was very great, and, as near as I can remember, madebetween three and four hundred horses, and upwards of one hundredand twenty men, very well armed and provided for all events; for asthe Eastern caravans are subject to be attacked by the Arabs, soare these by the Tartars. The company consisted of people ofseveral nations, but there were above sixty of them merchants orinhabitants of Moscow, though of them some were Livonians; and toour particular satisfaction, five of them were Scots, who appearedalso to be men of great experience in business, and of very goodsubstance.

　　"In one of these fits of lunacy or distraction I fell down andstruck my face against the corner of a pallet-bed, in which mymistress lay, and with the blow the blood gushed out of my nose;and the cabin-boy bringing me a little basin, I sat down and bledinto it a great deal; and as the blood came from me I came tomyself, and the violence of the flame or fever I was in abated, andso did the ravenous part of the hunger. Then I grew sick, andretched to vomit, but could not, for I had nothing in my stomach tobring up. After I had bled some time I swooned, and they allbelieved I was dead; but I came to myself soon after, and then hada most dreadful pain in my stomach not to be described - not likethe colic, but a gnawing, eager pain for food; and towards night itwent off with a kind of earnest wishing or longing for food. Itook another draught of water with sugar in it; but my stomachloathed the sugar and brought it all up again; then I took adraught of water without sugar, and that stayed with me; and I laidm

ed with trampling andrunning through the fire; others their hands burned; one of thewomen had fallen down in the fire, and was very much burned beforeshe could get out again; and two or three of the men had cuts intheir backs and thighs, from our men pursuing; and another was shotthrough the body and died while I was there.