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CHAP, my efcape before the building iliould be burnt down ; 

 ^ but in this I was difappointed, as they ftill remained; 

 and at the fame time the flames encreafed fo faft, that 

 the heat became infupportable in the place where I was, 

 and 1 had no other alternative left, than to be burnt to 

 death, or to leap from a high garret window into the midft 

 of my exafperated enemies. This laft meafure, how- 

 ever, I refolved upon, and had not only the good fortune 

 to light unhurt upon my feet, but to efcape without a 

 wound, from among fo many men armed with fabres 

 and bill-hooks. I fiev/ to the river-fide, into which I 

 plunged headlong ; however, not being able to fwim, I 

 immediately funk to the bottom; but (faid he) 1 ftill 

 kept my full prefence of mind, and while they con- 

 cluded me to be drowned, found means, by the help of 

 the moco-moco and mangrove roots, to bring myfelf not 

 only under cover of the impending verdure, but juft fo 

 far above water with my lips as to continue in a ftate of 

 refpiration till all was over. Having killed every other 

 perfon, the rebels departed, and I was taken up by a boat 

 from my very perilous fituation." 



On the 30th I arrived at Devil's Harwar, and the fuc- 

 ceeding day rowed up the Cormoetibo Creek ; where^. 

 having tied the boat to a tree which overfpread it with 

 thick branches, we quietly lay down to fleep during the 

 night ; myfelf and Quaco in the boat upon the benches,, 

 and the negroes under the feats, exce];)t thofe whom I 

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