ABSTRACT
One evening, that we were returning from one of these godlike expeditions, and approached the banks of the Unna, b there started before us from the neighbouring forest the figure of a beautiful woman, pursued by two persons attired in the Turkish uniform. They were on horseback, and had nearly 52overtaken her. Sure of their prey, one of them wheeled round, with the intention to take her in front. They would otherwise have been in danger of throwing her / to the earth with the weight of their steeds; but by this manœuvre the nimble rider counted to make her their prisoner without injury to her person. We approached the spot in an oblique direction, and were not at first observed by her pursuers. As soon as we were, they turned their horses (for we were to the amount of twenty or thirty), and were presently out of sight. The lady whom it had been their purpose to seize, as long as they were engaged in the chace was mute, and concentrated all her powers in the rapidity of flight. But she no sooner saw that deliverance was at hand, than she uttered a scream, with a mixed expression between agony and joy, and fell to the ground.
