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Black Tower called “the grave of the living,” for all our friends and enemies alike forgot us, giving us no assistance in any wise. Yet many hundred ducats had been sent, through a bill-of-exchange, both to me, to the late Zahradetzky, and to the priest John von Winor; but firstly, on account of the length and danger of the journey, and secondly, on account of the strictness and cruelty of our imprisonment, they could not be delivered to us. For, out of four thousand two hundred ducats, I only got one hundred and fifty, and these I was obliged to give away, mention of which will be made below. But verily the Holy Scripture is true, that, when all human aid fails, God Himself succoureth with His assistance.
