Magdeohôrg* biit'about Kall^wâÿ ©tit \toyage Wàs5 otë¥e .
moreobftriafted by an: enor'moüs tree which hàd< accident
tally fallen acfois the Creek* ib that we'coukî neither dbàg
the boat over nor under it. Thus we were again obliged
to return to the Jacob, whence w e now proceededto Mag-
denberg on foot, through thorns, roots, brambles, and
briars, and Where'We finally arifved wet and bloody f arid
my ancle, which had been nearly Well, freffi wounded to
the bone, the firin and fieffi being quite torn away By
the numberlefs obftru&ions tô our fteps< |
Here we were acquainted that Mr. Orleigh, one o f the
two officers that I had fent up to Magderiberg from thé
Hope on the 23d, was no ffiOfe. Thus died almoft all our
gentlemen, who had been during the laftmoh'th upon,
thfe hopelefs Hope, from which flow ûàêkë&f ohb-M|sîè
private TetUrried in health ; ahd'this, I am firmly o f opinion,
was greatly owing to the dry and burning month
o f June,-when the fun fuddenly fcorched them, after
marching arid even fleeping. if! cold watery fWamps, and
confiant heavy fhowers during the rainy feafon. However,
I hitherto efcaped by the ftfength of my confiitu-
tion and good fpirits, which I determined by every poffible
means to keep from depréffion,,by laughing, whiffling*
iinging, and (God forgive me!) fometimes fwearing,
while all the reft were fighing, bewailing, and dying
around me.
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X V III.
CHAP. . XIX.
ffie 'irfotips march' to SarBdiotbai in 'the River Cottica—
* firm H f "the1 Gavernmenf'of ''Suriname-Some Account of
'^fBe Emigrant1 Americans durirtglthbHdte War—Scbke-of
H E : rainyJeafon, being 3 againtapproaching, Colonel
JL EouRgeoudj Kavipg ifelpdted all 0 the remaining -
healthy people, who, no w: amounted, to but one hundred
and:; eighty -in number*,r on the 3d.'o f July* 1775, proceeded
on his march for Barbacoeba,- in the river Cottica ;
which i fpot he f appointed th e : general rendezvous,
prevdousMto the grand attack on the rebels* Of t^is. party
I had the: honour, to| Bp QriPgi hut .on the -furgeon’s declaring
that I fhoiild run the hazard o f lofing my foot
if.I marched'.'in the-WPPds*,Iwas-ordered jtp .remain at
Magdenberg* with, liberty,. i f I JopUj/epov^pd, to join :
Fqurgpoud, and make the1 beft pf my way.to Barbacoeba.
My Jimb, indeed, was pow fo fwelled, and my wound ip
black amputation was
dreaded by- Mr. KnoUaert, E9,urgeo,ud’s furgeon, and I
could.-not; even ftand without excruciating pain.—I fhall
bear the ;mark o f it ras long^as I live.
:During,this;, eonfinem^tT;rece^yed daily prefents from
Philander and the.other negroes, as I was always kind to ,
V ol. II. K them.
c ha r.
XIX.