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nczy and at the eftates Charenbeck, and Cravaffibo, in CHAP, 

 Rio Commewina; whence, conjundly with the troops ^ 

 of the Society and the Rangers, he intended to move in 

 queft of the rebels ; that he had alfo ordered all the barges 

 to be relieved at laft, and their remaining troops to 

 reinforce the above-mentioned pofts, which I muft re- 

 mark was a very wife and well-planned regulation. 



From Patamaca we were informed, that the rebels, on 

 their repafling the river above La Rochelle, had again 

 deftroyed a fmall eftate, and murdered its proprietor, a 

 Mr. Nyboor» 



It was either about this time, or very fhortly after, that 

 an overfeer efcaped by the affiftance of a negro boy, who, 

 defiring him to leap into a canoe, and lie down flat upon 

 his belly, leaped himfelf into the water, where, by fwim- 

 ming with one hand, and guiding the canoe with the 

 other J he ferried his mailer fafe over the creek Pata- 

 maca, through a fhower of mufquet bullets, the rebels 

 firing upon them all the while, but without execution ; 

 however, for this material piece of fervice, he was re- 

 compenfed the week after with three hundred laflies by 

 the fame mafter, only for having forgotten to open one 

 of theflaices or flood-gates. — On this adl of inhumanity 

 1 fhail make no comment, but proceed to my own mifer- 

 able fituarion. Having remonflrated with Lieutenant 

 Colonel Wefterloo on the ftate of my health, which 

 difabled me from joining the corps on their march^ 

 5 I re- 



