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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1789 edition. Excerpt: ... them, not knowing that this very houfe was a.. place of rendezvous for the banditti. i o t As he was feated oppofite the.;door, at a long narrow table, he faw two Harum-Bafhaws, armed, and of a gigantic ftature, enter. His mufket. ftood in a corner; he was ftruck, vith terror; but one of the banditti addrefled him thus: Neither thee, nor thy vafials, ' ' Trenck, have we ever injured, yet 11 doft thou purfue us with unex ampled cruelty. We think more nobly. Eat thy fill; we could nail thee to the wall; but fear no v. thing. When thou haft fatisfied v. thy hunger, we will then, fabrein A ' hand, fee who has moft jpftice on his fide, and whether thou art as Vol. III. I co courageous and as invincible as ' men fpeak thee. Hereupon they fat themfelves: down oppofite him at the table, and began to eat and drink and make merry. The fituation of Trenck could not be very pleafant. He recollected that, befide thefe two giants, fhere might be more of their companions without, ready to fall upon him; he, therefore, privately drew xhis piftols from his pocket, held'them.under the table while he cocked them, prefented each hand to the body of a Harum-Bafhaw, fired them both at the fame inftant, overfat the table on the other guefts, and fafely efcaped from the houfe. As he went he had time enough to feize on one of their muikets, which was Handing at the door. One of the Croats was left weltering in his blood; the other 7. difengaged difengaged himfelf from the table, and ran like a man frantic after Trenck, who-differed him to approach, killed him with his own gun, ftruck off his head, and brought it home in triumph. By this action the banditti were deprived of their two moft valourous chiefs, and, likewife, of their courage, fo that, ...

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