EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



Article VI. Each officer to be limited in the number of 

 his black attendants. 



The other orders were, " That in cafe our marines 

 ^< marched in two or three divifions or columns, they 

 " were to mark the trees with a fabre or bill-hook, to 



give intelligence to each other where they had palTed, 

 " ill the manner noticed on Plate XX. where ^, B, and C, 

 '* denote the marks cut by our firft, fecond, and third 



divilion or column, and D, E, and F, the marks made 

 " by the ft veral divifions or columns of the troops of the 

 " Surinam fociety ; which marks were to be cut in 

 " fuch trees only as were on the left fide in marching. 

 " Alfo when the troops marched over fandydefarts, heaths, 



or favannahs, they were occafionally to drop fmall twigs 

 " or reeds, tied together in the form of a crofs : and in 



each camp, on the troops leaving it, were to be left a 

 " bottle and blank paper ; but if any thing particular 

 " fhould happen, the fame to be fpecified thereon. In 

 " cafe of the troops being attacked on a march, a fmall 



entrenchment was to be formed of the baggage-boxes, 

 « at the back of which the negro flaves were to lie fiat on 



the ground ; and this entrenchment to be defended by 

 " the rear-guard only, while the other troops had orders 

 " not to linger on the defenfive, but vigoroufly, with 

 " bayonets fixed, to rulh in upon the enemy's fire; never- 

 " thelefs humanely giving quarter to all fuch as fhould 



be taken alive, or furrender themfelves to the troops." 

 Thefe were the ftated rules of our future military coii' 

 du6l ; but for the prefent I beg leave to obferve, that 



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