EXPEDITION TO SURINA M. 



irreconcileable temper, and at the fame time confcious 

 of my own wild and ungovernable difpofition, when I 

 thought myfelf ill treated ; but foon forgot trifling inju- 

 ries, and was now determined, by my adlive and affable 

 behaviour, to make him my friend if poffible. 



At length the wi fined- for hour arrived ; and being ap- 

 prized of Colonel Fourgeoud's approach, I went half a 

 mile from the camp to meet him, acquainting him that 

 I was come pour participer de la gloire^ and to ferve un- 

 der his immediate command, which he having anfwered 

 wdth a bow, I returned it, and we marched together to 

 the rangers' camp. 



The occurrences in this march were the troops tak- 

 ing from the enemy three villages, particularly one 

 called the Rice Country^ on account of the great quan- 

 tity of rice which was found there, fome ripe and fome 

 in full blofTom, which we totally deftroyed, after put- 

 ting the rebels to flight. Thefe were commanded by 

 one Bonny, a relentlefs Mulatto, who was born in the fo- 

 reft, and was quite unconnedled with Baron's party,which 

 had lately been driven from Boucou. We further learn- 

 ed that they had found feven human Jkulls ftuck upon 

 flakes, under which lay mouldering the bodies above 

 ground, and part of the garments, (as may be feen in the 

 annexed plate) and which proved them to be the remains 

 of the unfortunate Lieutenant Lepper, with fix of his 

 unhappy men, mofl of whom being taken alive, had one 

 by one been flripped naked by the rebel negroes at the 

 arrival in their village, and (for the recreation of their 

 wives and children) by Bonny's orders flogged to death. 



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