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the mornins;, and at four o'clock P. M. arrived, after CHAP: 



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indefcribable fufFcrinj^s, at Devil's Harwar, covered over 

 with mud and blood, and our legs and thighs cut and 

 torn by the thorns and branches ; moll of the men being 

 without fhoes and flockings of neceffity, while I, who 

 had gone this march in the fame condition from choice, 

 had abfolutely fuffered the leaft of the whole party, by- 

 having inured myfelf gradually to walk barefooted on 

 the barges. 



At Devil's Harwar, I now found Lieutenant Colonel 

 Wefterloo and a quarter-mafter arrived to take the com- 

 mand, his troops not being expected till the next day* 

 I was by this circumftance, however, made exceedingly 

 happyj hoping at laft to meet with fome relief; and 

 having ceded him my written orders, the magazine, 

 hofpital, &:c. Sec. I ftripped and plunged into the river 

 to wafh myfelf and take a fwim^ by which (being before 

 much over-heated) 1 found myfelf greatly refreHied, as 

 well as by receiving a quantity of fine fruit, Jamaica 

 rum, wine and fugar, from Joanna but how did my 

 blood chill, when the quarter-mafter told me, as a fecret, 

 that my ferjeant, one Fowler, having firft got drunk 

 with my wine, offered violence to this poor woman; 

 and that he was to be at Devil's Harwar next day, 

 when I Ihould fee the marks of her juft refcntment 

 on his face! 



The reader will, I truft, exciijfe my violence, when. I 



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