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Transcription -ing that he should be discovered pulled off his clothes
+ threw himself into the sea + began to swim for the vessels. He was
immediately discovered + the Turks began to fire upon him. He swam
to the buoy of a ship + rested a little behind it – then swam
to another + rested behind that for a little + then proceeded –
meantime now less than 20 or 30 (or 50) muskets were fired at him.
The bullets often struck the water but a few inches from his head.
Whether he was wounded at all I was not certain, but he continued
swimming till out of reach of the muskets + then a ships boat came
and took him up. To see one of my fellow creatures this deliberately
fired at by others was such a scene as I never witnessed before. (woman
+ child taken off.) |