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clothes. Their only resource against the bites of the 

 insects was to lie down on their faces in the sand. 



After a second night of misery, storm, and per- 

 petual terror of the tigers, which now bore down 

 from the forest, and were to be prevented from eating 

 the whole party only by incessant watching, and 

 keeping up a large fire, morning came again, and 

 Ramel crept out to examine the state of the weather. 

 His mission was productive. He saw, some hundred 

 yards off, the welcome sight of two men, and running 

 back to tell the glad tidings, Berwick the pilot ad- 

 vanced alone, bidding the others hide themselves, 

 that they might not alarm the strangers. On coming 

 near them, they probably took him for a wild beast, 

 for his appearance, from rags, hunger, and the fright- 

 ful havoc that the insects had made of his features, 

 was scarcely human. The two men immediately pre- 

 sented muskets at him ; but his gestures and suppli- 

 cations soon satisfied them that he was no very for- 

 midable assailant. The fugitives all now came for- 

 ward, and Pichegru, entering into conversation with 

 them in German, learned that they were two German 

 soldiers of the garrison of Mont Krick, and that the 

 fort was but three leagues distant. They were now 

 going on duty to Fort Orange, and Barthelemy and 

 Larue were sent along with them, to exhibit their 

 passports, and without acknowledging who they 

 were, obtain what assistance they could from the 

 humanity of the Dutch. They reached the fort. 



