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them; and he had with him many like them.
As soon, therefore, as that man beheld me, he
knew that I was in possession of my reason, and
that nought of that which had afflicted my com-
panions had afflicted me. So he made a sign
to me from a distance, and said to me, “Turn
back, and go along the road that is on thy
right hand: thou wilt so reach the King’s
highway.” Accordingly, I turned back, as this
man directed me, and, seeing a road on my
right hand, I proceeded along it, and ceased
not to go on, sometimes running by reason of.
fear, and sometimes walking at my leisure
until I had taken rest. Thus I continued to
do until I was hidden from the eyes of the
man who directed me to the way, and I saw
him not, nor did he see me. The sun had dis-
appeared from me, and darkness approached ;
wherefore I sat to rest, and desired to sleep;
but sleep came not to me that night on
account of the violence of my fear and hunger
and fatigue. And when it was midnight, I
arose and walked on over the island, and I
ceased not to proceed until day arrived, and
the morning came and diffused its light and
shone, and the sun rose over the tops of the
high hills and over the low gravelly plains. I