Richard Francis Burton - I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rat...

Richard Francis Burton Zitate

I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me.

Richard Francis Burton

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Ich war zu dieser Zeit von etwa einem Dutzend Feinden umzingelt, deren Knüppel unbarmherzig auf mich einrasten, und die Schläge meines Säbels wurden durch die energischen Stöße eines Anwesens, der mich hoffte, mich zu retten, verunsichert.

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