had produced. Lazar assured me, we should, most infallibly, be
attacked on the road. "So much the better," retorted I; "that will
give me an opportunity of despatching them, sending them to the
other world, and shooting them as I would highwayman." They
departed at break of day, and took the road to Warsaw.

We would have been gone, likewise, but Lazar, in some sort, forcibly
detained us, and gave us the six ducats he had received from the
Prussians, with which we bought us each a shirt, another pair of
pocket pistols, and other urgent necessaries; then took an
affectionate leave of our host, who directed us on our way, and we
testified our gratitude for the great services done us.

Feb. 6.--From Czenstochowa to Dankow, two miles. Here we expected
an attack. Lazar had told us our enemies had one musket: I also
had a musket, and an excellent sabre, and each of us was provided
with a pair of pistols. They knew not we were so well armed, which
perhaps was the cause of their panic, when they came to engage.

Feb. 7.--We took the road to Parsemechi: we had not been an hour on
the road, before we saw a carriage; as we drew near, we knew it to
be that of our enemies, who pretended it was set in the snow. They
were round it, and when they saw us approach, began to call for
help. This, we guessed, was an artifice to entrap us. Schell was
not strong; they would all have fallen upon me, and we should easily
have been carried off, for they wanted to take us alive.

We left the causeway about thirty paces, answering--"we had not time
to give them help;" at which they all ran to their carriage, drew
out their pistols, and returning full speed after us, called, "Stop,