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tiojj, inftantly expired. Hi?:companibn, called September*,
was more> fortunate, for Eaurgeoud,iinhopekof inakjng
fome difcovdries, regaled and treated him with moge dif-
tin<Rion than he did any of his d&cers,; ^hife iSeptem-
ter, looking as wild as a fox newly, ^caught, wa? pnt m
the Rocks during the night; and, hi? companion jyas; interred
by the negro flaves, with thofe. marks of,cpmmife-
ration which his unhappy fate demanded from every
human being. According to their, cuftom, they fpread
his grave with the green boughs of. the palm-trefes, and
offered a part of their feanty allowance Jay. way of libation.
The following day Mr. Stoelman, the .militia captain,
being arrived, to Hay one day only in the camp, I
took the opportunity to remind Colonel Fourgejoud of
what he had told me concerning his unbecoming intimations,
which I begged him now to repeat, in that gentle *
»man’s hearing, as I was determined to-have this matter
cleared up, and to obtain that fatisfadiion to which I
thought myfelf entitled. But the gallant Colonel was not
eafily brought to proof.—He now imputed, all. the blarhe
to Major Rughcop, who was dead, and requeued of me
to fay nothing more about it. 1 left him with contempt,
and fhook hand? with my fuppofed adverfary; and then,
to his inexpreffible furprize, told him all that had hap*
pened. The confequence was, that in lefs than two
hours the captain quitted Fourgeoud and Jerufalem in
difguft, and was followed by the remaining rangers.
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E X P ED I T IO N TO S U R IN AM. a57
On the ,29th, Captain de Borgnes was made major in c H A P..
Rughcop’s; plftce,;, but no new fubalterns were created, ^ J
Fourgeoudt^e^Lariingh'e had ho mofe materials to fabricate
them with ^wMphijiq, part jmight be, true amongfl:
th e “ ferjgants; but two brav&vyoufhs, both gentlemen’s
ions, who, had; entered as volunteers,; and,"gone through
every danger and,fatjgufek%ej^ined unnotiged in the
Thanks, the one named Sii&jfier, t|ie, other 'Meyer ^-duch
ever^as, and eyer w illb ^ ^ fk f^ ^ ^ ^ ^ d h e b b n fe q u e n c e
of wanting f)c-iead,g, and^ forfunp.
“ E t genus et virtus-nifi cum rf yijior alga e fl.!’?
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