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while the enemy were certainly lurking not far off: in CHAP, 

 conlideration of which, the Society Captain reinforced _ , 

 me with twenty of his men. The next evening he en- 

 tertained me and my two fubaiterns with a fupper of 

 frejh meat, both roaft and boiled, to our great comfort 

 and furprize ; but which, to my unfpeakable mortifica- 

 tion, proved to be the individual poor cow with her calf, 

 on whom we had built all our hopes for a little relief. 

 It appeared that one of his fentinels, as concerted between 

 them, had fliot it by a wilful miftake. Thus did Captain 

 Orzinga, for the fake of a momentary gratification, de- 

 prive us all of that lafting comfort on which we had fo 

 much depended, and of which we had fo much need, 

 being altogether emaciated for want of wholefome and. 

 nutritive food. 



On the morning of the 28th the Society troops rowed 

 to Patamaca, when, examining the twenty foldiers they 

 had left me, they proved to be the refufe of the whole, 

 part with agues, wounds, ruptures, and rotten limbs, 

 and moft of them next day were obliged to enter the 

 hofpital. 



On the 29th, having baftonaded my late pilot for 

 ftealing from the foldiers, I difpatched the information 

 to Colonel Fourgeoud, that I had taken poft, and ac- 

 quainting him with my weak fituation, requefted a proper 

 reinforcement. In the evening two of my men died. 



All things now being regulated and fettled, I thanked 

 Heaven in the expectation of getting fome reft, being 



A a a ftill 



