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OH A p. and barley ; concluding it as well to be fhot by the enemy 



at once, as to be gradually confumed to death on board 

 the Charon. It was, however, a difficult tafk to find 

 the fmalleft fpot for the purpofe, the whole of that lliore 

 being fo very marfliy, and over-grown with every kind 

 of underwood, that we could fcarcely put our new 

 proje6l in execution,; till at laft^ my negroes having 

 made a temporary kind of bridge, to ften from the yawl 

 upon a fmall fpeck of dry ground, and having formed 

 a flight filed of manicole-leaves to keep oif the rain, 

 we found means to keep in a fire, and were infinitely 

 more comfortable than we were on board the Charon. 

 Cur danger in this fituation, however, was certainly 

 greater than in our former ftation ; fince an old rebel 

 fettlement was not very far from this place, which was 

 called Pinneburgh, from a neighbouring creek ; though 

 others alledge that it obtained this name from the fliarp 

 pins ftuck in the ground, like crow-lQet^ qv ^cbev£ux de 

 frize, with which the rebels had formerly fortified and 

 defended it» Notwithftanding this village had been de- 

 moliflied, it was well known that the rebels ftill fre- 

 quently vifited the fpot, to pick up fome of the yams and 

 cafad as (which the ground continued, in its uncultivated 

 ftate, to produce) for a temporary fubfiftence. I was in- 

 deed almoft abfolutely convinced that the rebels, who 

 had lately pafled above La Rochelle in Patamaca, were at 

 this moment encamped at the above fpot Pinneburgh, 

 and ready to commit fome depredations on the eftates on 



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