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der his personal superintendence, the whole camp, 

 before night, resounded with the warlike blasts of 

 the cavalry. 



It is difficult to conceive how this adventurer 

 could have expected his forced auxiliaries, the 

 Americans and English, to be of much use to him 

 in action ; for he never trusted them even on a 

 march without a guard of horsemen, whose orders 

 were to spear any one who attempted to escape ; 

 in this way he afterwards carried them many a 

 weary league over the country. 



The captain of the ship, who had given him the 

 brilliant idea of the copper trumpets, had, by 

 these means, so far won upon his good will and 

 confidence, as to be allowed a considerable range 

 to walk in. He, of course, was always looking out 

 for some plan of escape ; and at length an oppor- 

 tunity occurring, he, with the mate of the Ocean, 

 and nine of his own crew, seized two whale boats, 

 imprudently left on the banks of the river, and 

 rowed off. Before quitting the shore, they took 

 the precaution of staving all the other boats, to 

 prevent pursuit, and, accordingly, though their 

 escape was immediately discovered, they succeed- 



