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wittiout a billet, and even without the trouble 

 of feeking them. 



Poor Carrol the furgedri, who accom- 

 panied our ftaff, having beeri dire&ed to pro- 

 ceed with the troops^ who were to have landed 

 previous to the furrender of the fort, is, un- 

 happily, a fevere fufferer from long expofure to 

 heat in the boat. After being away upwards 

 of thirty hours he returned to the Grenada, 

 with a very alarming attack cf haemate- 

 rnefis. *. He left us yeftefday morning in 

 ftrong and florid health, and is, to-day, 

 brought back with a death-like pallor of coun- 

 tenance, and in a ftate of almoft inconceivable 

 debility and exhauftion. A veffel having rup- 

 tured in the ftomach he vomits up pure blood 

 in furprifmg quantities. 



With a faint and languid* but moft pe- 

 netrating look, he caft his eye up to fne, and in 

 a faultering voice expreflfed himfelf confcious of 

 the very imminent peril of his fituation, allur- 

 ing me that he was well aware how few hours 

 he had to iwe, and requefting me to take his 



* Vomiting of blood. 



