20 TiMEHRI. 



honour to the Corps to which they belong. As it is an 

 insult to Colonel HiSLOP, I hope the authors of the 

 report will be traced and obliged to ask pardon of the 

 Colonel, and also be obliged to go out on the first 

 expedition against the Maroons." 



As a result of the above letter, an expedition was 

 fitted out early in November which arrived at the mouth 

 of the Camouni on the nth. It consisted of 50 non- 

 commissioned officers and privates of the nth W.I. 

 Regiment under the command of Captain MACRAE, 

 Captain Edmonstone and four other gentlemen with 

 tw^elve of their trusty negroes, well armed, the Indian 

 Captain CORROWELL, with sixteen other Indians, and 

 Lieut. Broughton, Commander of H.M. Brig Staunch, 

 with a Sergeant and six marines. The " indefatigable 

 zeal and a6livity " of EDMONSTONE procured sufficient 

 boats in a few hours to convey the party up the Creek, 

 and also provided thirty-six negroes to carry live days' 

 provision. This expedition scoured the country from 

 the source of the Camouni to the head of the Boerasirie, 

 destroying several camps and taking a number of 

 prisoners. 



On the 28th April, 1807,' Governor Bentinck in- 

 formed the Court of Policy that Mr. CHARLES EDMON- 

 STONE, notwithstanding his ill-health from the wound 

 received in a former expedition, had again come for- 

 ward to lead the late expedition, had aftually shared in 

 all the danger and fatigue incident thereto, and had 

 direfled everything with so much perseverance that the 

 almost inaccessible recesses of the Maroons had been 

 discovered and totally destroyed. The Governor was of 

 opinion that the fresh services lately rendered, and the 



