N A r R A;T I V 3E O F A N
'C H A P . XXIII.
ë ecof a march t o Gado-Saby-^-Ac count o f a thing Skflelon
Beautiful. Land/capes— The Commander in Chief fads
J j j f . and leaves the Camp.— -Some Rebels taken— B fco u rfe
■ on the TLxiJlence o f Mermaids— Heavy Rains— Difeafe—
Famine—Mifery.
^ P- N the 9th «of 'Oólobèr,' 1775, ' Colonel:F<mrgegud
. ^ broke tip the effcampment-at-théïWana Creek to
join us at Jerufalem, having- fent down the half qf-his
party fick in barges,; and .their number, being greatly
au^ented4)y the invalids from.thisv place, they were all
together Aanfpörted to receive the roz^-^-^örrg in'the
hofpital at Devil’s Ilarwar. The rangers“ dïfo Jp’olsf their
leave, and marched, with Mr. Yinfack their coridu&or,
to guard thePirica River.
Fourgeoud, during his laft cruize, had difcovered a
hundred empty houfes, and feen fome ftraggling rebels,
but he had taken none. He had alfo found a fcalp fixed
to the branch ó f a tree, which we juftly conjectured to
be thé feÊnairis o f the unfortunate SepnMi) who was
lóft*.
On the 13th my black boy, Quaco, being perfectly re-
* This was the more furprifmg, as we ware at peace with all the Indians, and
fcalping was never pra&ifed the ntgrtes,
covered,
.coyered, arrived, tq ^yigreat ^tisfacftip^as his fidelity to
/^e w^ £ 01 ^ I ^ h n l h a ^ u , ; A t f a m e time we
f l Captain § | I S | I with fome
;a fettletqent o f the rebels
fmoke^pppprin^'at^Aifta^jq^e fpreft,but
, ' ^ n q f a ^ e d t j i em '; 'that .Captain ifteddbky, with
ar P^ J a|; f$$P%g,' t h e f e - fide
:^ low Paramaribo; ,that t j i e . tw p '^ w e had io f tV the
18th o f Au^pft jhad miraculouflI r (f &aped, and found
fV Cir at the;w^f^arawinaV'.and that no
:ff§ than twelve fine,, negroflaves had juft-deferted £om
the Gold Mine eftatq to join the Bezels'.
, This news .fo
that the,indefatigable man again determined to perfe-
yere im pprfujng hi5 enemies. We acdofdiigly « ^ re d
,the w o o d s^ ^ e a r ly .p n the .morning o/‘th e lj5th, al-
though- and his. little army vyere..at this time greatly
redu^e^| He buried but the ^evening before qne.of his
pountr^rpen, a volpnteer, called Matthew, ^ahd' brothlf to
the enfigii: but death. Wasmow become fp familiar;to us,
that ujpon Idling jgifHqndpr;y ^ i q h f ^
generally was, “ Has he left any brandy, rum? or to-
•!v Laurant J I, to has Ihrivelled
valgt-de-chambre, “ the brave.Fourgeoud is j\ke fire; .he
•**4?.to the colony an excellent fervant indeed; but I think
. e to both you and myfelf but a roughifla mafter.*’ The
poor fejldw, Ihrugging. up his fhoulders, replied, with a
ijKft a^d a'heavy f ig h ,“ Oui, par m afoil?-and then treated
;y o t . 11. y
me