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was firft lafbed hands and feet, and thus carried by two 

 negroes on a pole, in the manner of a hog or a beer- 

 barrel, bearing all the weight of his body -upon his 

 fhattered limbs, which were dropping with blood, with- 

 out a plaifter or a bandage to cover the wounds, and with 

 his head hanging downwards all the time ; in which man- 

 ner the unhappy youth, for he had not the appearance of 

 being twenty, had been brought through thick and thin 

 for above fix miles diliance from the camp, while he 

 might juft as well have been carried in one of the fpare 

 hammocks of the foldiers. I was fbocked and furprifed 

 at this a6t of barbarity in Fourgeoud, whom I never had 

 obferved to be cruel in his cooler moments to an indivi- 

 dual ; indeed I muft do him the juftice to fay, quite the 

 reverfe, unlefs he was oppofed, as I muft own he fome- 

 times was by me; but on this occafion he was fo flat- 

 tered with this trophy of victory, that every fpark of 

 feeling and humanity was extin6t. The body being laid 

 on a table, I implored one of the furgeons, called Pino, 

 to drefs his wounds ; on which, that he might feem to do 

 fomething, he put juft as many round patches as the 

 flugs had made holes, declaring he could never recover, 

 and finging Dragons pour boire during the operation.— 

 Poor negro ! what muft have been his feelings ! The fever 

 increafing, he begged for fome water, which I gave 

 him myfelf clean out of my hat, when he faid, Thank 

 ye, me Mafera," ftghed, and, to my inexpreffible fatisfac- 

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