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was about to shut the door, when he gave my Mar a blow on the breast with his clenched fist. Whereupon my Mar took him by the Cummerbund (took hold of his Cummerbund,) & instantly the man attempted to draw his sword (Tulwar) and had got it half out, when my mar with his left hand seized the man’s right arm, & with the other hand took the sword from him & immediately bent it against the