marrow, Upen. faying which (continued the foKfier^
<{ as I lay on, my bleeding hreaft,. With my face refting
ft oa m i left arm, hfe, dropping bis; hatchet into my
“ fooiddeiy mad© ther fata£ wcmmd you fee^ cd ^ h ieh i
M fball perhaps im mare recover.—I however lay quite
w ftill. They went away, carrying along with them
<fc the mangledf heads ©f my comrades, and; five or fix
u priftmers alive, with their hands tied behind their
M backs, o f whom I never fince have heard* When all
» was quiet, and it was very dark, I found means, on my
**■ hands, and feet,- to creep out from among the carnage,
« and get tmder cover in fhe foreft, where I met another
a of our faldiesrs, who was left wounded than mylclf £
« with Whom, after ten days wandering, in torment and
u defpair, without bandages, not knowing which way to
66 proceed, and only one Angle loaf of black bread for
K our fubfiftenee, we at laft arrived at the military poffc
u of Patamaca, emaciated, and our putrefied wounds full
u of live worms.”:
I gave the miferable creature halfoa-crown y and-KaV-
ing agreed with Captain Grzinga upon the fignals, we
left this peft-houfe, and fbepping on hoard my man of
war, rowed up till we arrived before a creek, called Bar-
bacoba, where we once nacre came to- an anchor.
On the following day we continued to row farther
up the river* till we came, before the Cormoetibo
Creek, where we moored the fleet, as being my head
ft at ion,
Nation, by Gotohel Fmirgeohd’s command. Here we faw c ti aR
nothing hut Water,; Wood,' and cloudsMO tf-aee o f hii- . VIL *
manky, and codfequently the place had a ftioft difmal,
folitary appearance.
I ° n the I0th 1 J ’detached the Cerberus - th » 'Ration,
Upper Patamacai;;Tor Which .pla^ Ihe rO^ed dfome-
.diately, with a Ihng.lifbof proles, according*fo my hr-
dersj.buttwhich wefe never of at*y ferviee*-
- -We now tried to cook, the. visuals oh Rottidj huf for*
nace was adarge tub filled With earth,
at the cxpence of having akhoft foaMbd'obe d f my men
to death, and at the hazard- of fetting the barge once
■more on fire. As we had no forgeon along’ with us,
fhirufike fell to may Ibl>'andi hy me hgip ©f a fmaii
cheft of medicines, I performed fo well, that in a few
days the foalded marine recovered,
TO prevent, however, a fimilaf accident again, I fought
an opening ia the creek above-named, which having
found not very far from the mouth, I ordered my negroes
to build a filed, and my men to drefs their vi&iMls below
it, placing fentinels around them m prevent a fufprize,
arid in the evening we retrirned k r o u r ;Ration. This
cooking we continued to perform every day* Until the
fourteenth, when we rowed down to Barbacoba..
Here we built andther fliedon the i^hprfor the feme
purpofe; and then, thetain already beatirig through my
decks, We rowed down to Devil’s HarWar for repair,
where I put one of my negroes lick in the hofpifel.
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