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CHAP, being ill and unfit for fervice; but no. rangers were as
, x x ‘ , yet arrived, though they had "been expected r The
fadt was, they were fo much difguffcèd with Fourgeoud’s
command, that .they did not appèar'at all, which afforded
this gentleman for once an opportunity of ftigmatizing
them- as a'foand of pufillanimout? rafcals; and ï- cohféfs I
Was *myfelf extremely aftonifheYbat this wilful'a^lence of
my: black favouritèsj'.who^were at: dthérti m es fif* gager to
fufh hpo^thè*^êöay,'aöd^had declared-^theiFfaïisftóïlon
at the hopes o f a decifive engagement with- their fable
countrymen.
-r' This; whole; 'day :ouf;courfe .due; E 4 and -after proeeédïng
aboutfeight mileï^whïch ^ a^heat tfi|tattQfein?,il3TOr
country,, where the. pióneej^. witia-,bilhhofltö;^n«fi;-,c0rif
ftantly-©pen ’ a path)i we ro^edted h^ifc%,aBjdi ©adamped;
Having frequently medtibndd: the: r$bet-:m%gMe$i Ï with
whom we! were- now certain • to batfe a rencontre, iipifc*
^èrit the reader with the figtire o f .onse of! thefe; people
upon his ;.guardj"-asrialarmed; by a ruftHhgpamoögfi [the
hulhes. - : At' .a cfifiance rare fnppofed a xouglqLcxf aóilr
ranges,' waiting thé moment to flake [him byTuarpriss©;
This, rebel negro is afnaed -with a fireloek'a'nd ashatchetr;
his hair,..though woolly, .’may foe dfeferyed to bè .plaited
cldfe. to ’ his head, by way* o f diftindlibrj. frbm the
rangers, pi any other {haggling negroes, who; are‘rnot .yet
accepted amongff them; his beard is . grown to a point,
like that o f all the Africans, when they have no opportunity
of {having. The principal drefs. o f this man
6 confifts