Sentence:  ...the president informed him that one of the conditions of his introduction was that he should be eternally ignorant of the place of meeting, and that he would allow his eyes to be bandaged, swearing that he would not endeavor to take off the <WSD>bandage</WSD>. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A strip of cloth bound round the head and eyes as a blindfold.