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CHAP, one or two of thefe attend them when they fet out oa 

 any enterprize of confequence. Every ten privates have 

 one captain, who commands them in the foreft by the 

 different founding of his horn, as the boatfwain com- 

 mands the feaman by his call, or as the cavalry of Eu- 

 rope are direcSled by the found of the trumpets in the 

 field ; by which they advance, attack, reLreat, fpread, 

 &c. : they are armed only with a firelock and fabre. Of 

 both thefe weapons they underftand the management in 

 the moft maiferly manner ; they generally go naked, in 

 preference, in the woods, excepting trowfers, and a fcar- 

 let cap, the emblem of liberty, on which is their num- 

 ber, and which, together with their parole or watch- 

 word, which is orangey diflinguiflies them from the 

 rebels in any a6tion, to prevent difagreeable miftakes. 

 They have, indeed, of late years, been farther diftin- 

 guifhed by green uniforms. — Thus far as to the force of 

 the colony, 



I have already flated, that the newly revolted rebels, 

 called Gotticas, were juil: preparing to give the finifhing 

 blow to Surinam ; and I fhall now proceed to relate how 

 this cataftroplie was prevented. 



Thefe negroes, being commanded by a defperate fellow 

 named Baron, had erected a ftrong fettlement between 

 the river Cottica and the fea-coaft, whence they fallied 

 forth to commit their depredations on the plantations in 

 Cottica river, &c\ 



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