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Early in the morning we left cur room 

 opprefled with feverifli feelings, and a fenfe 

 of general ftupor : — and almoft blind ! Our 

 eye-lids were fwoln and heavy — our whole 

 faces tumefied and inflamed. It were difficult 

 to convey to you a juft idea of our afflidted 

 appearance. Perhaps if you call to your ima- 

 gination the vifage of a fot, after he has de- 

 voted two or three whole nights to the bot- 

 tle ; then, before he has had time to fleep off 

 his intoxication, fubjed him to an attack of 

 " St. Anthony," you may conceive a tolerable 

 reprefentation of the matin- countenances of 

 your friend, and his fleeplefs mufquito-bitten 

 comrades. 



We breakfafted with M. Abbenfets, and at 

 nine o'clock embarked for New Amfterdam. 

 The negroes took no reft between Effendam 

 and the town. They cheerfully pulled the 

 oars for five hours without intermiffion, in order 

 to reach the landing place before the turn of the 

 tide ; and all the relief they fought, throughout 

 the whole of this time, was that of occafionally 

 taking up a handful of water from the river, 

 and pouring it upon their oars, to prevent 

 them from becoming hot and dry, and thereby 



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