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havé féën many of them kept on the eftates, where, like CHAP,
the powefa, they are reared for domèftiê Ufès, and feed . XI' .
arftöiig the türkéyè ih d bthéf poultry.
On thé 6th I received fix gallons of rüm from Paramaribo,
fêtit of Which1 gave as a pfefent to Fourgeoed.
A-böüt fix in thé everiihg two óf oür flakes, who had
'bëéri Ónt to cöt manicoles, brought intelligence that a
gan^ Of rebels Sad paffed hot above a mile from the
taihpr Bèadéd by a Captain Aricb,1 with whom they had
fpOkéri On the banks- Of the Gormoetibo Créëk, but could
hot tell WMcli way they fteeféd thèïr courfef fb much
had they bëérii terrified. On this information we received
orders to ptiffue them by break Of day? and the next
mornirigr ^t fiVé btelbekyall was ready, and wé again
broke'tip, lè&ViWg a dëteéhment with the Aores, and repaired
to thé’ fpof whence m& ihféUigénce proceeded.
Here we faW a- large palm or mawrifee tree*, Abating in
tite' fiver,* and möbfëd tb thé öppöfité' Ihore by a’ nebee,
ptókily' indi^éd* that- AiicO,-whh his men, had
Crofted thé créëk,- which they do by riding aAride on the
Abating tr link, the ©he beMn$ the other* in which manner
they are ferried over, (fómetiröes with women and
Children) by thote WhOaTethé' beA fwimmers^.
NotwhhÉandihgthfe plain evidence, the faith of our
Colonel, Folirgeoud, now began1 to waver, and he averred
that it Was no' more than a Aratagem-of the rebels, who,
he faidy had come from the place to which we fuppofed
* The largeft of all the palm fpècies.
them
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