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arrivé M La'Kocffmfy fn PcffamüicÊ. *’•*
O -N the Jöth/of NöffeMbfeF, ’
troops broke up together, aód ië&vïftg JerftfaieftH
we once more marched back to the Wana Creek, ghat did
not keep exaótly the track That had bpötight ,us thither:
Colonel Fourgeoud, however, revoking his former orders,
now allowed his remaining party to fling -their
hammocks under cover, of which indeed he^ at this criiis,
condefcended to fet them the example; thus were we at
leaft more comfortably Judged, but, I am forty to add,
not more comfortably victualled, while the old gentleman
himfelf wanted for nothing that was good.
Wé continued our march* for three days fucceflively,
with good weather; but I was every night, awaked, out of
my found fleep by a fentinel, who was fent by the colonel’s
orders to difturb me, with a charge of having ‘Wpijlléd
or/poke.
On the 3d we arrived once more at the Wana Creek.
Here, after a fatiguing march, 1 flattered myfelf with the
hope of recruiting my exhaufted ftrength and fpirits by
a quiet night’s reft,; but was once more awoken, though
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fo found was my fleep, that the fentinel was obliged to G jfl a P*
fhake me. three-or four times’'b y th e fhouider. i theft ^ ^ ^
flatted up, denying the ’charge; but Fourgeoud himfelf,
flEtihg upright in his*hammock, tiowTworfe, in a tremendous
voice, that be was 'determined to hang and quarter
wtoewer fliould dare to difobey his-.'Orders, the dark and
gloomy Woods refounding with his bellowing threats * A
deadly ifilenoe fuceeeded this ftortli ■ throughout the camp,
tifi I happene(|’t# hreak it, by bnrfting out into an lift*
moderate -fit o f laughter, in which 1 Was in ftantiy accompanied
.fey fo many others, that, he began to roar like
thunder,^without being able to diftioguiijh one perfon's
weace from another. In this mufic he was feconded. fey d
darge toad, called here the p.ipa, to ' which moftfter he ac¥
•trwally gave iftidterin Iris hut, and which kept croaking
jeyery night, with foch a voice hs could onlybe.exceeded
fey rFourgeoud himfelf, or'by that o f his countryman? d
Swiflerlaftd Sear. Morpheus I now invoked to befriend
me again, but >to ?no-pm'pofe, htch was thpirmpreffioEi
which Thefe feveral roarings'had left; ora iwy «hiftd j-^and
in this gloomy temiaeri ihall^deferib;e'thi.s hateful gloomy
(anitna^ The seelonel’s dear companion, rwifc. ft&epipa, the
dargeft of . all the Toads in not in The
•Wofld.
The pipa is an animal fuppofed by flame to partake of
both the nature of The -frog- andthe toad* 'Itas-Themoft
hideous of all creatures: upon earth, (Covered over with a
dark tbrown fcrophulous-ifcip, very uneven, and marked
with irregular black Ipots,; the hinderifeet vQf theicrea-
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