I plainly heard a noise upon the cover of my closet like that of a cable, and the grating of it as it passed through the ring.

I then found myself hoisted up by degrees, at least three feet higher than I was before.

Whereupon I again thrust up my stick and handkerchief, calling for help till I was almost hoarse.

In return to which I heard a great shout repeated three times, giving me such transports of joy as are not to be conceived but by those who feel them.
I now heard a trampling over my head, and somebody calling through the hole with a loud voice in the English tongue.

"If there be anybody below, let them speak." I answered I was an Englishman, drawn by ill fortune into the greatest calamity that ever any creature underwent, and begged by all that was moving to be delivered out of the dungeon I was in.