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He had, however, occasion to remember his want of caution the

next day; whilst carousing in a tavern, he was seized with a

shivering, his eyes grew dim, his strength failed, and he fell

lifeless. Abandoned by his companions, he fell into the hands of

the monatti, who, after having plundered him, threw him on a car,

where he expired, before arriving at the lazaretto to which his

master had been carried.