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Following the Equator
Part 6

CHAPTER LIV
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I was at this time sensible of no pain, and little uneasiness; I can give you no better idea of my situation than by repeating my simile of the bowl of spirit of hartshorn.

I found a stupor coming on apace, and laid myself down by that gallant old man, the Rev.Mr.
Jervas Bellamy, who laid dead with his son, the lieutenant, hand in hand, near the southernmost wall of the prison.

When I had lain there some little time, I still had reflection enough to suffer some uneasiness in the thought that I should be trampled upon, when dead, as I myself had done to others.

With some difficulty I raised myself, and gained the platform a second time, where I presently lost all sensation; the last trace of sensibility that I have been able to recollect after my laying down, was my sash being uneasy about my waist, which I untied, and threw from me.

Of what passed in this interval, to the time of my resurrection from this hole of horrors, I can give you no account." There was plenty to see in Calcutta, but there was not plenty of time for it.


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