Pocahontas and the priest's counting stick

Sent to England by the chief of the indians with Pocahontas to gain on intelligence on the threat of their new neighbours and count how many there were of them. On the road from Plymouth to London, through stick away.

Henry James hearing narration of what seemed his approaching death

As he fell in a seizure, heard an imaginary narrator's voice commenting on it: "So here it is at last, the distinguished thing"