EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



we the next morning fet out in the fame track we had c H A Pu 

 kept the eighths he ftill perfifting that he lliould overtake ^^^^ 

 the enemy. Having thus marched till towards dark, we 

 altered our courfe, and pafled the night in an old camp 

 of the rebel negroes^ having again paffed the whole day 

 without water. 



The following day we ftill proceeded, but neither ene- 

 mies nor water were to be found ; the men and ofEcers 

 now began to be extremely faint, and fome were already 

 carried in their hammocks. It was by this time indeed 

 infufferably hot, being in the very heart of the dry fea» 

 fon. Ib this dilemma we dug a hole fix feet deep, in 

 the bottom of which a ball cartridge being fired^ a little 

 moifture began to trickle forth? but fo flow and fo blacky 

 that it proved not to be of the leaft ufe. 



We ftill marched on, and encamped in an old weedy 

 fields where the rebels fome time before had cultivated 

 plantations. During the night it was truly affecting to 

 hear the poor foldiers lament for want of drink, but to 

 no purpofe ; for in fpite of all this mifery, Fourgeoud 

 ftill perftfted in going forward even the third day, build- 

 ing his hopes on meeting with fome creek or rivulet to 

 alleviate this general diftrefs. In this he was however 

 miftaken ; ibr having againi on the 12th, marched over 

 burning fands till about nooOj he dropped down himfelfj 

 amongit a nuniber of others, a niifcrable fpedacle, for 

 want of means to fluke their raging and intolerable 

 thirft. It was happy that in this fituation we were not at- 



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