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fide, by land, or by water. Perhaps another 

 fituation equally commodious for the purpofes 

 of the hofpital department could not have 

 been found in the colony. 



Already have I changed my quarters from 

 Stabroek to our new home at La Bourgade,- 

 and in future I fhall be fpared the neceflity of 

 dragging my legs through the deep mud, twice 

 or thrice each day, in my vififs to the hofpital : 

 but it does not feem probable that I (hall long 

 remain ftationary, for I have received inftruc- 

 tions to proceed to the colony of Berbifche, 

 to make arrangements for the hofpital depart- 

 ment there, as foon as I fhall have brought thefe 

 at La Bourgade into a proper eftablifhment. 



Fortunately my bedding was not left be- 

 hind with my other baggage, and this is now 

 'i^^r^-'* put up in the windward apartment at our 

 f tiojfjttal barrack, where I look forward to much 

 comfort^frolK' the prote&ion of my mufquito 

 curtain^. 



* A kind of gauze net without opening, thrown over 

 the whole of the bed and bedftead, and fliut clofe at bot- 

 tom, by means of a heavy border of lead, which falls upon 

 the floor. * * \ 



