camel, but he had no weapon: however, seeing the Tartar down, and his horse fallen upon him, away he runs to him, and seizing upon an ugly ill favoured weapon he had by his side, something like a pole-axe, he wrenched it from him, and made shift to knock his Tartarian brains out with it. But my old man had the third Tartar to deal with still; and seeing he did not fly, as he expected, nor come on to fight him, as he apprehended, but stand stock-still, the old man stood still too, and fell to work with his tackle, to charge his pistol again; but as soon as the Tartar saw the pistol, away he scoured, and left my pilot, my champion I called him afterwards, a complete victory.

By this time I was a little recovered; for I thought, when I first began to wake, that I had been in a sweet sleep; but, as I said above, I wondered were I was, how I came upon the ground, and what was the matter; but a few moments after, as sense returned, I felt pain, though I did not know where; so I clapped my hand to my head, and took it away bloody; then I felt my head ache; and then, in a moment, memory returned, and every thing was present to me again. I jumped upon my feet instantly, and got hold of my sword, but no enemies in view: I found a Tartar lie dead, and his horse standing very quietly by him; and, looking farther, I saw my champion and deliverer, who had been to see what the Chinese had done, coming back with his hanger in his hand: the old man, seeing me on my feet, came running to me, and embraced me with a great deal of joy, being afraid before that I had been killed; and seeing me bloody, would see how I was hurt; but it was not much, only what we call a broken head; neither did I afterwards find any great inconvenience from the blow, for it was well again in two or three days.

We made no great gain, however, by this victory, for we lost a camel and gained a horse; but that which was remarkable, when we came back to the village, the man demanded to be paid for the camel; I disputed it, and it was brought to a hearing before the Chinese judge of the place. To give him his due, he acted with a great deal of prudence and impartiality; and, having heard both sides, he gravely asked the Chinese man that went with me to buy the camel whose servant he was? "I am no servant," says he, "but went with the stranger."- "At whose request?" says the justice. "At the stranger's request," says he. "Why then," says the justice, you were the stranger's servant for the time; and the camel