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‘other hand, -the dreadful havock, whiehthewe£ weather
muft 'produce, arqong >his troops,r of which jhe killed,
fuppofe, at thq rate: o f rtwenty to one rebel npgro. |jb«
Fourgepud was himfelf of a
having been ufed to hunting and fhooting the whole of.
his life-time: ,to whiqh. he added' temperance, and. the
<daily ufe of hisfi^ljpypd^j^^ ' >
Jfi^drefs confided o f ..nothing but a w^Iftjcoat,* jfchrgugh'
<one of the:button-holes o f which,,he wore, Jus.f^pgjl^jpti
b is bead he wore a cotton* night-eapa a
hat? above it,, and ip his hand .a cane ;e bpt lie fpldom carried
his mufket or his piftcl§.r I bgye feen^bini; all ;ih
:rqgs and bare-?footed, like the meaneft ^4if«r,rfi
- On the morning of the .3d jo^ April,
two columns , fet out upon their,- march,^ the ope commanded
by Colonel Seyburg, vthe other ^by^.. Fqi.)!;?,
geoud; to which laft.I had g the .hoppur to belong. | Our
poor men were now loaded like .afles. They, were or<hffd
to put their fire-locks in their ,kn£pfacks, of courfe the
muzzles excepted : this was to keep them from the rain,
which abfolutely poured, in torrents; Our courfe was
fouth by eaft, up among the banks pf -the Tempatee
Creek, where we foon came to fwaqaps,, and were
marching in the water above our knees. :i
During the firft day’s march we met fome very pretty
fquirrels, which' are * o f feveral kinds in this * country.
Thofe that we faw were brown, with the belly white, the
tail not fo bufhy; nor were theyj upon the whole, fo large
§ as
as thofe of Europe. There are alfo white fqtiirrels .iii this
country with red eyesfj and flying, fquirrels. Thefe, it' is
Well known, have no wings.,; but a membrane between
the fore, aftft hinder leg, being a part of their fkin, which,
when they leap, expands like the wing of a bat, and by
this, lUg| a parachute, they reft upon the'air, and in
their flights are carried to. a confiderable diftanee».-. 1
On the?4th oflApriLwe marched again, our courfe fouth
by eaft, till two o’clock, when we changed our courfe to
fo u th-fo u tb-we ft.
This day we palled by piles of fine timber, that were
left there -tp rot.f i n ,when :the eftates ;werte- demo-
lifhed’b y . t n e M ^ ^ ^ ^ e fw e r e in rebellion. Among
thefefvybrset the purple *h'mf4'*-4^ee^ t]n.en;jr(Fii~^Wd^ifre^
and the, bMfttyctuffa, known,, in- England by, the name
pffBrazil. -
f The purple-hearf^feree^grows f^j^gtjipiesjh the height
offourfeore feet, and thick jin.1 propprtipn/ with a-ftnooth
dark browu bark; Ibe.w'opd'jis of a. beautiful purple colour
agd .an agreeable. ,fmel-bi and is muefe eftpeihed oh
account of its weight and -durabjlity.1,.;
. The iron-wood-tr.ee,. fo calleb^fronj,, the,,, gravity aiid
permanent quality ofibsftimber,' gr;ows 'to _about fixty
feet in heigbt, . with alight-coloured bark. It is* much
valued by; the natives as well aStthe JEuropeans, on acr
coupt of its hard in particular. (rpfifting even the,
hatchet), and for takipg a moft beautiful bright polifh.
.This wood ^nks in water*. /
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