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Ings, oranges, bananas, plantains, yams, eddoes, 

 and other kinds of provisions ; thus, in addition 

 to the trees of the foreft, procuring themfelves 

 further concealment by the plantations which 

 gave them food. The eddoes were found in 

 great plenty, and had feemed to conftitute 

 their principal diet. Round the exterior of 

 the circular fpot was cut a deep and wide ditch, 

 which, being filled with water, and ftuck, at 

 the fides and bottom, with fharp pointed flakes, 

 ferved as a formidable barrier of defence. The 

 path acrofs this ditch was placed two or three 

 feet below the furface, and wholly concealed 

 from the eye by the water being always thick 

 and muddy. Leaves were ftrewed, and ftep- 

 pings, fimilar in their kind, made to the edges 

 of the ditch, at various parts, as a precaution, 

 to deceive any who might approach, refpe<9> 

 ing the real fuuation of the path. But the 

 proper place of croffing was found out by the 

 acutenefs of the Indians, who foon difcovered 

 that to attempt to pafs at any other part, was to 

 be empaled alive. 



It was found that the Brigands had eight 

 of thefe encampments, or points of rendezvous 

 In the woodvSj one of which is fuppofcd ftill 



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