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CHAP, to have marched agaiaft the enemy, when they crofTed 

 the Patamaca Creek ; that is, from La Rochelle, Devil's 

 Harwar, and the river Pirica; when, being affailed at 

 once from three quarters, the rebels might have been, 

 if not entirely routed, at leaft feverely puniflied for their 

 prefumption : not to fpeak of the happy efFe(5t which 

 fuch a check muft have had in faving the lives and pro- 

 perty of thofe vidlims, who, after fuch incuriions, are 

 generally devoted to their rage. 



On the 23d I felt myfelf rather better; and between 

 the fits of the fever fhot a couple of large black monkies 

 to make fome broth, to fupply the want of frelh provi- 

 fions : but as the deftruilion of one of thefe animals was 

 attended with fuch circumftances, as for ever after had 

 almoft deterred me from going a monkey-hunting, I muft 

 beg leave to relate them as they happened : — Seeing me 

 on the lide of the river in the canoe, the creature made 

 a halt from fkipping after his companions, and being 

 perched on a branch that hung over the water, examined 

 me with attention, and the ftrongeft marks of curiofity: 

 no doubt, taking me for a giant of his own fpecies; 

 while he chattered prodigiouily, and kept dancing and 

 fhaking the bough on which he refted with incredible 

 ftrength and agility. At this time I laid my piece to my 

 fhoulder, and brought him down from the tree into the 

 ftream ; — but may I never again be a witnefs to fuch a 

 fcene ! The miferable animal was not dead, but mortally 

 wounded. I feized him by the tail, and taking it in both 



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