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However, these robbers and other authors of this tumult, who were
afraid, on their own account, lest I should punish them for what they had
done, took six hundred armed men, and came to the house where I abode,
in order to set it on fire. When this their insult was told me, I thought
it indecent for me to run away, and I resolved to expose myself to danger,
and to act with some boldness; so I gave order to shut the doors, and went
up into an upper room, and desired that they would send in some of their
men to receive the money [from the spoils] for I told them they would then
have no occasion to be angry with me; and when they had sent in one of
the boldest of them all, I had him whipped severely, and I commanded that
one of his hands should be cut off, and hung about his neck; and in this
case was he put out to those that sent him. At which procedure of mine
they were greatly affrighted, and in no small consternation, and were afraid
that they should themselves be served in like manner, if they staid there;
for they supposed that I had in the house more armed men than they had
themselves; so they ran away immediately, while I, by the use of this stratagem,
escaped this their second treacherous design against me.
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