Several Peasants were standing round me, and seemed disputing whether my recovery was possible.

I spoke German tolerably well.

As soon as I could utter an articulate sound, I enquired after Agnes.

What was my surprise and distress, when assured by the Peasants, that nobody had been seen answering the description which I gave of her! They told me that in going to their daily labour they had been alarmed by observing the fragments of my Carriage, and by hearing the groans of an Horse, the only one of the four which remained alive: The other Three lay dead by my side.

Nobody was near me when they came up, and much time had been lost, before they succeeded in recovering me.