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CHAP, is of a dark-brown colour, and fo is their wax, but 

 ^1"' . gummy, being both of little value. 



The worft of our fufFerings, however, was the fatigue 

 of marching in a burning fun, and the laft two hours in 

 total darknefs, holding each other by the hand ; and 

 having left ten men behind, fome with agues, fome 

 ftung blind, and fome with their feet full of chigoes. 

 Being in the moft hofpitable manner received at Scribo 

 by the commanding officer, I went to my hammock very 

 ill of a fever. 



On the following morning I felt myfelf better for my 

 night's reft ; but neither myfelf nor my men were able 

 to march back, wherefore the other captain fent a fmali 

 party of his foldiers to pick up the poor marines I had 

 loft the day before, and of whom they brought with them 

 feven, carried in hammocks tied to pc^les, each by two 

 negroes, the other three having fcr ambled back to 

 Devil's Harwar. 



During our ftay here I wrote a letter to Colonel Four- 

 geoud, couched in fuch terms as few people in their full 

 fenfes would do to their commanders, viz. that I had 

 found the path; that if I had had fupport in time I might 

 have cut off the enemy's retreat, inftead of finding their 

 foot-fteps only ; but that now all was too latte, and the 

 party all knocked up to no purpofe. This letter, I have been 

 £nce told, incenfed him, as it is eafy to fuppofe, in the 

 higheft degree. Being fuffieiently refrefhed to renew 

 my march, we left Scribo on the gth, at four o'clock m 



