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CHAP, after; but durin^^ that time we had no further inclina- 

 tion to reft. At lafl: the fun's bright beams began to 

 dart through the trees and gild the foliage ; on which 

 we call off from our moorings, and continued rowing 

 up Cormoetibo Creek (which was now very narrow) till 

 near noon, when we difcovered a fmoak, and at laft 

 came to the mouth of the Wana Creek, which runs into 

 the Marawina, and which was the place of rendezvous, 

 where however the troops were not yet arrived ; 

 and oppofite to which were encamped a few of the 

 rangers, to guard the provifions that were waiting the 

 arrival of Colonel Fourgeoud and his party from Craw- 

 aflibo, and laft from Patamaca. 



One of the rangers having killed a tattu or armadillo, 

 called in Surinam capafce, I fliall embrace this opportu- 

 nity of defcribing it. — This animal is with propriety 

 fometimes ftiled a hog-in-armour ; its head and ears 

 being much like thofe of a roafting pig, and its whole 

 body covered over with hard fliells like Ihields, Aiding in 

 moveable rings, like thofe of the quee-quee fifh already 

 I mentioned, the one over the other, except on the 

 flioulders and the rump, which are covered fomething 

 like turtle, with one folid mafs of unmoveable bone, 

 called by fome a cuirafs and a helmet. Of this crea- 

 ture there are many fpecies in Guiana, the largeft being 

 from the fnout to the tip of the tail above three 

 feet in length, of a reddilh colour, and marked all 

 over with hexangular figures. Its eyes are fmall, the 



tail 



