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NARRATIVE 



OF AN 



CHAP, and where, on going afhore, I had nearly perifhed by the 

 , boat's lliipping a fea, and finking in the furf. 



The illand of Wicringen was however the fpot of 

 general rendezvous : here Colonel Fourgeoud arriving 

 on the 7th of December, the volunteers were all alTem- 

 bled, to the number of five hundred fine young men ; 

 and on the morning of the 8th w^e were formed into 

 feven companies, and embodied as a regiment of marines. 

 Beiides the Boreas -^xiCi Wejlellingwerf men-of-war, com- 

 manded by Captains Van de Velde and Crafs, three new 

 frigate-built tranfports were put in commiflion, carrying 

 enfign, jack, and pennant, and armed with from ten to 

 iixteen guns, as floops of war; on board thefe vefTels 

 we embarked the fame afternoon under a general falute, 

 then took the command, and did the duty as in the 

 navy. 



Our departure was not however immediately confe- 

 quent on our embarkation. We lay wind-bound in the 

 Texel roads for many days, during which time one of our 

 young ofheers, a Mr. Hejfeling, was unfortunately feized 

 with the fmall-pox : this gentleman, in order to pre- 

 vent his infe6ling the fhip's company, was ordered on 

 fliore to a town on the land's end, called the Helder, where 

 I conduited him in a pinnace, and where we left him 

 behind us ; but on my return, the furgeon declaring he 

 faw the fymptoms of the fame diforder on myfelf, I was 

 alfo immediately ordered to the ifland of Texel. Hav- 

 ing pafTed a moil anxious quarantine in this place, I had 



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