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tell him, that I vowed immediate deftru6lion to the 

 villain : and having ordered a negro to cut twelve 

 bamboo canes, I retir-ed like a perfon deprived of his 

 fenfes, determined to punifli him according to his 

 fuppofed crime. 



On the loth there arrived two fubalterns, with a fe- 

 cond barge full of men, ammunition, medicine, and pro- 

 vifions, which having marched into quarters and flowed, 

 I fent for the haplefs Fowler, whofe face being in three 

 places wounded, I locked him up in a room, and, with- 

 out alking one queftion, broke fix of the bamboos 

 over his head, till he efcaped all bloody out at the 

 window, and my refentment gradually abated. He 

 certainly had fufFered much, but nothing equal to what 

 were my fenfations, at being ilill further informed, 

 that Colonel Fourgeoud had feized all my effecSls, 

 which he had fealed and locked up in an empty ftore- 

 room, in expecSlation of my deceafe, which, according to 

 all appearances, might be looked for ; while my houfe 

 was given to another, by which means I could not 

 procure fo much as a clean fliirt to relieve me from 

 my difgraceful tatters : neverthelefs, by the ' hope of 

 going down myfelf, my fpirits were fupported. The 

 other news, of more importance, was, that the hero in 

 perfon, with moft of the troops, had at lall: left Parama- 

 ribo; that he had quartered them partly at Devil's 

 Harwar, in Rio Cottica, the eftate Bellaiz, in Rio Pe- 



rica. 



