, I could see no other Impression but that
one, I went to it again to see if there were any more, and to observe if it
might not be my Fancy; but there was no Room for that, for there was exactly the
very Print of a Foot, Toes, Heel, and every Part of a Foot; how it came thither,
I knew not, nor could in the least imagine. But after innumerable fluttering
Thoughts, like a Man perfectly confus'd and out of my self, I came Home to my
Fortification, not feeling, as we say, the Ground I went on, but terrify'd to
the last Degree, looking behind me at every two or three Steps, mistaking every
Bush and Tree, and fancying every Stump at a Distance to be a Man; nor is it
possible to describe how many various Shapes affrighted Imagination represented
Things to me in, how many wild Ideas were found every Moment in my Fancy, and
what strange unaccountable Whimsies came into my Thoughts by the Way.
    When I came to my Castle, for so I think I call'd it ever after this, I fled
into it like one pursued; whether I went over by the Ladder as first contriv'd,
or went in at the Hole in the Rock, which I call'd a Door, I cannot remember;
no, nor could I remember the next Morning, for never frighted Hare fled to
Cover, or Fox to Earth, with more Terror of Mind than I to this Retreat.
    I slept none that Night; the farther I was from the Occasion of my Fright,
the greater my Apprehensions were, which is something contrary to the Nature of
such Things, and especially to the usual Practice of all Creatures in Fear: But
I was so embarrass'd with my own frightful Ideas of the Thing, that I form'd
nothing but dismal Imaginations to my self, even tho' I was now a great way off
of it. Sometimes I fancy'd it must be the Devil; and Reason joyn'd in with me
upon this Supposition: For how should any other Thing in human Shape come into
the Place? Where was the Vessel that brought them? What Marks was there of any
other Footsteps! And how was it possible a Man should come there? But then to
think that Satan should take human Shape upon him in such a Place where there
could be no manner of Occasion for it, but to leave the Print of his Foot behind
him, and that even for no Purpose too, for he could not
