mal moves aukwardly upon land, but in the rivers pro- 

 ceeds with great velocity. In Guiana it is fdid there is 

 another fpecies of otters, which are much larger, but 

 thefe I never faw. 



Notwithftanding the favourable appearances of the 

 preceding day, I was, on the 24th, exceedingly ill in- 

 deed, not being able to fit up in my hammock, under 

 which the black boy Quaco now lay, crying for his raaf- 

 ter, and on the following day the poor lad himfelf fell 

 lick ; at the fame time I was alfo obliged to fend three 

 men in a fever to Devil's Harwar. As misfortunes often 

 croud together, I received, at this fatal period, the me- 

 lancholy account that the officer, Mr. OweB, was alfo 

 dead, having expired on his paffage downwards at the 

 eftate Alida, where he was buried. My enfign, Mr. 

 Cottenburgh, who had lince gone to Paramaribo, died 

 next ; and for myfelf no better was now to be expecSled. 

 In the height of a burning fever I now lay, forfaken by 

 all my officers and men, without a friend to comfort 

 me, and without affiftance of any kind, except what the 

 poor remaining negro flaves could afford me, by boil^ 

 ing a little water to make feme tea. In this fituation the 

 reader may judge of the confolation which was afforded 

 me, the very evening when thefe accumulated misfor- 

 tunes feemed to threaten our extin^ion, by the receipt of 

 an order from the Colonel, to come down with both the 

 barges to Devil's Harwar? where I was again to take poft 



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