text:  Suddenly he rose up stiff and gory; dying and delirious as he felt himself with misery from exhaustion and wounds he swam rivers threaded enemies and moving day and night came suddenly upon an army of Kandyans; here he prepared himself with pleasure for the death that now seemed inevitable when by a fortunate accident for want of a fitter man he was selected as an ambassador to the English officer commanding a Kandyan garrison--and thus once more escaped miraculously