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that he had lost entirely the hope of delivering me and he should speak of it no more.

The Commissioner called me to one side the next morning and made known to me through an interpreter that up to the present time he had done all in his power to withdraw me from captivity, but that I had not seconded him and had made no account of all his endeavors, no more of the obliging offers made me by the Minister at Orange.

I replied that I was obliged to him and to the minister for their offers, and would have been more so,