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c H A of my illnefs, had made me an offer of being tranfported 



^ . to Devil's Harwar ; but this I refufed. 



On the 1 8th the news arrived, that poor Campbell died 

 on the preceding day ; and now Major Rughcop him- 

 feif was fent down extremely ill, being the eleventh lick 

 officer during this Ihort campaign. Being now almoft 

 ftarving for want of provilions, we were moft opportunely 

 fupplied by a quantity of fifh, particularly the Jackee, 

 already defcribed as changing to a frog; and the warappa^ 

 which is of the fame fize, and equally good, both being very 

 rich and fat ; thefe fifh were fo plentiful in the marfhes, 

 where they were left by the retreating water?, that our 

 negroes caught many with their hands, but moftly by 

 ftriking at hazard in the mud with their bill-hooks and 

 fabres ; after which, grafping with their fingers, they 

 brought up pieces and half fifhes in great abundance. 

 Another fifli they alfo caught in the creek, called 

 coemma-coemma^i which is from one to three feet long, 

 exceedingly fweet, but not near fo delicious as the jackecy 

 or warappa, which two laft the negroes generally fmoak- 

 dry or barbacue, and which I was glad to eat without 

 either bread or fait. The barbacuing eonfifts in laying 

 the fiQi upon twigs of wood above the fire, w^here, by 

 the fmoak, they dry to a confiftency that gives them 

 no difagreeable tafte, and will preferve them for feveral 

 weeks together ; thus prepared, they require no further 

 drefiing. 



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