EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



{hot dead while employed upon it, was of neceffity laid 

 aCide. Thus every hope of pafling through the mar(h 

 into the fortrefs being fruftrated, and the food and am- 

 munition being confiderably leffcned, added to the lols - 

 of many men, airairs were at length arrived at fuch a 

 crifis, that the fiege muft have been broken up, and the 

 remaining troops muft have marched back to Parama- 

 ribo, had not the rangers, by their indefatigable tfforts, 

 and (however ftrange to think) implacable enmity 

 againft the rebels, found out and difcovered to the Eu- 

 ropeans the under-water paths of communicaticn to 

 Boucon, feveral being fliot and drowned in the execution 

 of this important fervice. 



Captain Myland with the regulars, on this intelligence, 

 now forded the fwamp on one fide, and inftantly making 

 a feint attack on the fortrefs, drew Baron with all the 

 rebels, as was expedled, to its defence; while Lieutenant 

 Freidrecy, with the rangers, having crofTed the fwamp 

 on the other fide, embraced the opportunity of leaping, 

 with his black party, over the palifadoes, fword in hand, 

 without oppofition. 



A moft terrible carnage at this time enfned, Vv'hile 

 feveral prifoners were made on both fides, and the for- 

 trefs of Boucon was taken ; but Banin, with the greateft 

 number of the rebels, efcaped into the woods, having 

 firft found means, however, to cut the throats of ten or 

 twelve of the rangers, who had loft their way in the 

 marfh, and whom he feized as they ft-uck fa ft in the 



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