C H A p. however, proving to be a Mfe ’alarm, bytalftag rufhing;
5CXII. oUt through the foliage, wo focta rofe^aftd after marching
•the''whole day£thrOu-gfoWattb’ahd•'rhife j • :at1 tla^iriirtKfe'
-afternoon encamped ba a MghQrMge; ‘Where fi@t a dfcs|>
o f wafer Was to he found till rwe* had dug for thSt
purpofe,-- and- this-.wa^fd;Very thitek andmh<My | th Stjwb
wereohligfed^to-ftrain it thfbugfi out SeChofoths -or" fhirt-
{Teeves- befoie -we Vould dHrik if: •5 Here I was offie4 rftb'fe
accofted* b y the Lieutenant Colonel, wft^invfted nle^to
fomedupper.m his hut, and treated M- hpon-the’ whdle
with foeb - very^greaf civility 'as! L Could' not* ahedtmt for
after his former behatioiir.
Oft the -fucceeding - day. we - marched again,- 'keeping
eourfo W * 1 B | w'tiite I
had the rear-guard; and once more entefod^n a. q u ^
foire, which cbft -mb three1 hb£rr£ fime'fo 'hrin'g up ^he'
rekr^o the beach,> this march being panfiCulafly'diftrefr
fing,- as the > negro Haves, with their burdensjji broke
through the furftfee* every moment hvhile the loaded
marines' had enough to do to- miftdb th'emfelvesy 4n l I
too weak b y foy Ike lO&bf bidOd-toi afford them' any gg '
fiftance whatever.- At Mft, approaehmgthe fee-aoh,,I perceived
the dead bodies o f Several rebel negroes fbattered:
on the ground, with their beads and right-handsichopped-
off.1 ThCfo' bodies being freftv induced me to conclude,,
that they muft have been very lately killed, in fome engagement
with the troops andrangefs ftationed op the
Pirica river.—And here I muft-again remark, that; had I
, been
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been allowed to purfue, on the sift, with thé; rangers, • C H A P,
when I ¥ a s ordered to march- back, the enemy would _ ‘ ,
haveda'e'enbetween, two.'.fires; in which cafe few could
have efcaped, and all the plundered; fgoii muft have been
re-taken. * The reader will probably recollect a fimilar!
imftahceiiwMel^.occurred two gears’before, when I was
Rationed at Devil’s Harwar. ■ Had I at. that time been provided
With men and ammunition to. march, I might have t
rendered theuc^ohya materialforjrLee• ■ | Theffe t wó' capital,
blunders I am forry to relate, but a regard to truth and
impamti^ljty. obligf&me jo;do it, S^npt.thefe, remarks,
however,' fix- a ftigma of e f deity joh' me in .the eyes »’of the ,
*world-, finchcno man cpidda.mbre; ftrdngly feel at the*
„Rgbt of -foch manly youths: ft retched dead among the
ipfrounding: foliage; apd-^finer bodiestihan'twO-of them
W$r# in particular I nle ver bebeWlip .aRvmy life, .
« So t^vo young.mountain .lions, n i|||i with blood,
<« in deep reedfes o f the jgloqmy woo’d,^ ‘
“ Rum fearlëfs to tire hfëirhs^ and' uncöntrQul’d
“ Öepopulafë thé italls, and w alle the Tbld^f
“ Till pierc’d'at 'diftance-fróm their native-Hen/
** ÖW^óWerM they‘fall beneath the force df mën V y
ïröfttate off earth their beauteous Ubdieslay, r
f ■ u • DikeWöUiiiaM'i‘ïBsj is tffl ihd-fbalght -Ö ; thfey 1” : -
'VJ/lple i my mind TWas. engaged by , ;thefp and • fimilar,
remarks, many of my .leaded, ftill-remained en-;;
tangled and ftrngglipg. in: .the quagmire, while the com-
. U 2 man ding