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plaint which I find has lately been prevalent 

 among the troops in this colony, although we 

 had not obferved any thing of it at Demarara. 

 It is morefevere than the prickly heat, butfome- 

 whatof the fame nature ; and is, perhaps, only 

 an aggravated degree of that difeafe. It creates 

 an uneafy fenfation, not amounting to fevere 

 pain, but fufficient to rob me of reft. 



I am forry to note to you that we had the 

 misfortune to lofe one of the foldiers the morn- 

 ing after my arrival at Berbifche, from his 

 going into deep water in bathing, and not be- 

 ing able to fwim. Several of his comrades, 

 and alfo fome negroes, who faw him fink, 

 fwam inftantly to the fpot, and dived to the 

 bottom in fearch of him, but without fuccefs. 

 He was drowned and probably carried .away 

 by the ftream. The next morning the body 

 was found floating upon the furface of the ri- 

 ver very near to the fort. I mention this ac- 

 cident the more particularly from having mark- 

 ed its effect upon the minds of the foldiers of 

 the garrifon, and having obferved that the 

 accidental death of an individual operates 

 with, precifely, fimilar influence upon the feel- 

 ings of men actually engaged in war, as of peo- 

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