n a r r a t i v e o f a n
Having invited this gentleman, with his adjutant, and a
few more, to fee us a£t a farce by candle-light, we af-
fe£ted to quarrel, and beating out the candle, the door ;
being well fecured, laid on in the dark with fuch fuccefs.
upon a certain femebody’s feoulders, that, calling out.
Murdeu! he leaped out, at the window. Notfcmg
gave me greater entertainment than to perceive his.'agility
; but Colonel Seyburg-declared he would never morq
to our playbe a fpe^tatpr. ,
At this time orders arrived from Colonel Fourgeoud,:
who was alfo better, to; break up oyr camp, at JCfttfalem,
and march once more to the Wana Creek. In consequence
the fick. were again Sent dptw,n in barges to ' thei
hofpital at Devil’s Harwar, which was Ae,arly . fully while:
feveral were labouring under a difeafe fomething;"like:
the tympany, called here the kook, being a prodigious,
hardnefs and fwellingan the belly, occafioned,. itisyfaidj:
by drinking muddy water without Spirits, whijch was indeed
our:daily and general beverage.
On the aad, at fix o’clock in the morning,,we all decamped,
and Scrambled up along the banks of the Cormoe-
tibo Creek, through a perfect bog, wl>ife-one poor negro,
who had his head f ig u r e d , was left behind, and
another knocked pver-board one of the barges, who was
drowned.
We this day again , few great numbers o f pingoes or
warree-hogs, which as ufual breaking through our line,
were cut down by febres and ftabbed, while feme ran
off with the bayonets flicking in their hams.
This
E X P E D I T 1 0 N < T 0 S U R I N A M.
... This anarch was peculiarly difegreeable, upon account CHAO*,
qf the .hpavy rains, which now began to fall down in v— »,— j
torrepts, oyprflowing-the banks of ah the rivers; and fo
Cpi,d were the damps in the morning, oontrafted with the
late warm that we frequently lay IMvering in our
Jiammocks^s i ï 1 efpecially when fleeping in wet
cloatfrs., This inconvenience, however, I obviated to day
by matching half:iiaked, like the rangers, and putting
my/feirtjii A0& o f the.aeyerfqd kettles, during, the rain—
th^lmy lkin foon drying, after a feower,;! again put on
my linen, andfound myfelf much more comfortable than
any <of my tremhliqgghaftly looking companions.
On the evening of the 23d, we encamped near a ri-
vulet'iCalleA b e Caymans or Alligator Creek; where a-
trpe.calietb Monbiara afforded feme, excellent fruit, but
this was entirely rflnpped’ by jjjKj flaves before I could
Cither-t^ftepr even fep,.it inperfeéHon.
The rains continuipg j o pour down in a deluge, I
again .marched ftripped on the 24 *, and we flung our
hammocks in the evening, near a brook called Torica,
or the Deyffs Creek, where we made huts, or feeds- to eo,
ver us, .and;flowed thé provifions upon rafters. -
On the following day we once more laboured through
deep mud and water, in very heavy rains, and encamped
at another fmall brook, called the Java Creekyy.hree
miles below the Wana.
On the a6th-I was f e l l e d , with a fmall party, to reconnoitre
the old .camps at Wana Creek, fe the evening