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fmoking his pipe under my‘ hammock. — (< -Idad'era,’*
laid he, &hoth pairtiesi&re-' divided in 'final! compadiis of
f!i^^t>Qrtea tiKiij Comjrianded:hy ac^taiS^With a hdiinj
<£ -Rich as this ({hewing me his);,by.which they dp "every
£s thing, and fight or run aw-ayj When they fight«they
£f ^parateSmm^lateiyy lie-down on the ground^ andf fif&j
<c at the flafh of each other’s pan» througK.'the
A while each warrior isT fiappofrt'edfby two ' un-
<{ armed, the'one to takerhis -place if her i-v killedj' and
ffrthe other to carry away the dead 'hody, tp p$eve|itiifs.
“ falling into the hands of their! kdyerlari^s^.”
| jFrom thil^dlfcburfe, h perfehiy underftood his meaning;
which I hav e.' fince feen puLin j»ra£i'i&e 4 and for the
oleare r-coneept ion-o f the ^reader, J have illu’ftfeafeti it with
the^followipg -plan,..where the. whole engagement jfjjkv
habited. :at one view.
The two columns E and F are fuppofed to be firft en^
ga|ppp* where N° g§| in the column E .com moneys the-,, ate.
tack by firing ^at fandom in thei oppofite. bufheijr and
infiantly mtires^ by fhifting his place :td;N° i in .thedcd-
lumn C, where ^e- re lo ad s ; while N'hfte ^he cojutan Ej
having;-fired at the flafh q£, his pan,' advances in the
iaipenaanher, (hifting^jis Ration to re-load at N° a in the
column; and at the flalh of whofe pan N°-3 fires in
£, and reb|ive& the fire o f N°4 in \Ff Sec. Sec. Thus
continuing "through both line^^IlrN r 8Tia;s r3Sfed:in- F r
* The negroes‘ have a lavage’euftoiri part or tbern witlftheir teeth, like the C a -
of mangling and tearing the dead bodies, ribbee Indians.
<rf their enemies > fome even devouring
when
White (juaderoon