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CHAP, now melted down to twelve men, who v/ere to protedl 

 Viii. twelve buildings, and that with no more than two very 

 fmall chefts of ammunition, and no retreat for the fick, 

 as the barges were gone to Patamaca, and the laft canoe 

 difpatched with my letter to Colonel Fonrgeoiid ; for 1 ^ 

 had fet adrift that belonging to the exprefs, who was a 

 book-keeper of a neighbouring plantation, in order to 

 prevent him or any other from making their efcape. In 

 this fituation, I was now obliged to convert the flaves 

 into foldiers : thefe I armed with a hatchet, not daring 

 to truft them with a firelock. For this whole night we 

 again watched under arms, and in the morning found 

 two more of our little party dead on the ground. 



I now began really to think we were all devoted to 

 deftrudlion, while the men, regardlefs of all order (felf- 

 prefervation excepted) threw out the moft bitter invec- 

 tives againft their perfecutor, Fourgeoud, which I could 

 not prevent ; nor can I help remarking the generalfliip 

 of the rebel negroes, who. had kept lying quiet till the 

 removal of the Society troops from Devil's Harwar, and 

 feized the very firft day of their departure, convinced of 

 its being guarded only by my lick and emaciated foldiers, 

 in order to commit their depredations on the Cottica 

 eftates. They well knew that my force was not fuffi- 

 cient to purfue them, nay, hardly to ftand in my 

 own defence : all this, however, was but according to 

 my expedlation; while, on the contrary, had my 

 strength been fufficient, they could never have ef- 



caped 



