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NARRATIVE OF AN 



CHAP. This informativon we got from a rebel woman, who had 

 ^_ , been made a prifoner by Fourgeoud on his march 

 through the above village or rice condre, and whom we 

 treated with every kindnefs. 



This inhuman condu6l in Bonny was diredlly oppofite 

 to that of Baron, who, notwithftanding all his threats 

 and menaces, it was well known had fent back to Para- 

 maribo different foldiers, whom he might have killed. 

 He even affifted in concealing them from his enraged 

 accomplices, and furnifhed them with proviJfions, per- 

 fectly fenlible that they were not the caufe of the dif- 

 turbance. But not a ranger, as I have faid before, that 

 had the misfortune to fall into his hands could efcape his 

 ungovernable fury. 



On further converfation, we found that the whole party, 

 being nearly ftarved, had conjun6lly called out for bread, 

 as it was known that there was plenty in the boxes, but 

 that it had been kept back three days, and rice ferved out 

 in its ftead. To fupprefs this kind af mutiny, the offi- 

 cers had milled in amongft the men with cocked piftols 

 and drawn fwords, and indifcriminately laying hold of the 

 firft in their way, had unluckily feized a poor man named' 

 Shmidt^ whom, notwithftanding all the others averred to 

 be innocent, they had, for an example to the reft, bafto- 

 naded between two corporals, till the blood guihed out 

 of his mouth like a fountain ; — and thus ended the re- 

 volt. One of the conductors, named Mangoly difdaining 

 at all to ferve under Colonel Fourgeoud's command, had 

 left him without alking his confent, after which he 



forfook 



