About two years ago a cousin of mine, in one of the King's regiments, who was dying, they said, of fever (but I know the doctors thought he had been poisoned), said to me, "Here are some things that will make your fortune if ever you get to England; but I tell you beforehand, they are dangerous things to keep about you.

I fancy that they have something to do with my being like this now.

A year ago I went with some others into one of their great temples on a feast day.

Well, the god had got on all his trinkets, and among them was a bracelet with the biggest diamonds I ever saw.

I did not think so much of it at the time, but I kept on thinking of them afterwards, and it happened that some months after our visit we took the place by storm.