The following question refers to "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe. Of the following aspects of the story, which one is based on exaggeration rather than historical accuracy?

Narrator meets Bedloe; he is sickly looking and is very peculiar in appearance; Bedloe has neurologic problems, Templeton takes care of him; Templeton is a mesmerist, he convinced Bedloe to try it and performs mesmerism on him all the time - - they develop a strong connection; Bedloe goes for a walk and doesn't return, they find him later and he says that he got lost; sees a man chased by a hyena in the woods and drinks from a spring; comes across a town that seems like it is from the middle east, men are going to war; joins the weaker team and finds that they are surrounded; Bedloe gets hit with an arrow that looks like a snake and dies; gathers himself together and runs out of the city; Templeton shows him a painting of what he has just described; it was the actual events of the insurrection of Cheyte Sing - Oldeb was killed by the arrow there. Templeton had been writing them down at the time Bedloe experienced all this; Bedloe gets a cold and dies from a leach, his name is spelled without the e in the obituary