CHAf . is of- a dark-bro^fc cdoiipj '.ahdlllldsdfeefr Wax; but
. Vin’ . gummy, being both of little value., t
- ThewoFft-of oiirfufferings^rbqw®vieji, Wa& thtl fatigUe?
of marching in a burning fun, and thedafttwo-hoftfs in
total darknefs,f holding •:track other by the hand; and
having left ; ten men- behind, fome with agues," fomo
ftung blind, and fome with their feet full of Chigoes»'
Being in the moll Hicdpitable manner received at' Sdfibo
by the commanding officer, I went to my hammock5 Very’
ill of a fever. >
On the folfowfngi morning! felt -myfelf better' for my
night’s reft; but neither myfelf nor my men were able
to march back, wherefore the other captain fent a foiall
party of his fokliers to pick up the poor marines I had
loft the day before, and of whom they brought with them»
feven, carried in hammocks tied to-i poles,- each by5 two5
negroes, the, other :three having : fcrdmhled^ back to
Devil’s Harwar.
During our ftay here I wrote a letter toColonePFour-
geoud, couched in fuch terms as few people in-their-full
fenfes- would do to their commanders,'Wif. - that I had
found the path; that if I had had fupport in time d might
have .cutoff the enemy’s retreat, inftead of fiiiiftfg their*
foot-fteps only; but that now all was too late, and the
party all-knocked up to n® purpofe. This letter, I have been
ftnce told, incenied him, as it;is eafy to luppofe, in the
higheft degree. Being fufficiently riefreffied to renew
sny march, we left Scribo on the 9th, at four o’clock ia
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the morning,;aiidf at four o’clock P. M. arrived, after CHAP,
indçfcribable fofferings^at: Devil's Harwar, covered over ^
withimud and .blood,, and our?legs‘and thighs cut and
forp by the thorns and branchés ; moft of the men being
Without ffioes and 'ftobkings of neceffity, while’ I, who
had goq'ejthiÿ march in the dame’ condition' from choice,
had abfolutely fufferpd the--leaft -of the whole party; by
having: inured ; myfelf gradually j<r walk barefooted on
the barges. ?
. At-Devil’s, Harwar, ; I now found ’Lieutenant Colonel
Wefterloro -and a, quarter-m.after arrived to take the ;com-
mand, his droops ! not being expeétèd 1 till, the ’next dayi)
I was by this- circumftance, however, made- exceedingly
fe?PPy»f&9Pfog at laft to imeet!with fome relief; and?
having, ceded- him my written/orders, thé' magazine,
hofpital, See. &p. ;l flipped "and plunged in too the river'
to waffi myfelf -and. take a fwim,-by which (being before'
much over-heated) I found mryfelf greatly refreshed, * as:
well as by< receiving; a quantity of f e e d r nit, Jamaica
rum,wine and fugar, from'Joanna ;■—-but bow did my
blood chill, when, the quarier-mâfter told me, as. a-fecret*
that my ferjeant, orieL'Fowler, having: firft got drunk
with my wine, .offered yiqlëftcfe to iMs ; poor woman ;•
and that he was to be at Devil’s-Harwar next. dayr
When I ftiould fee the . marks o f her juft refentment
on his fape!, g
, The reader will,. I truft, excufe my violence, when I
tell