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C H A P. tacked by the negroes, as it muft have been impoffible. 



^ to make any reiiftance, the ground being llrewed with 



diftreffed objects that appeared to be all of them in raging 

 fevers. Defpair now feemed to be irapreffed even upon 

 Fourgeoud's countenance, as he lay proftrate on the earth,, 

 with his Hps and tongue parched black ; and in this con- 

 dition, though fo little deferving of it, he again attracSled 

 niy pity. 



During all this,, fome of the foldiers Hiill devoured fait 

 pork, while others crept on all fours and licked the fcanty 

 drops of dew from the fallen leaves that lay fcattered: 

 on the ground. I now experienced the kindnefs of which, 

 a negro is capable when, he is well treated by his malter,, 

 being prefented by one attending me with a large cali— 

 bafli of as good water as ever I drank in my life ; and 

 this he met with, after unfpeakable difficulty, in the 

 leaves of a few wild pine-apple plants, from which it was; 

 extracted in the following manner :- 



The plant is held in one hand, and a fab re in: th^: 

 other, when at one blow it is fevered from the root,, 

 through the thick under parts of the leaves. It is then, 

 held over a cup or calibaih, and the water flows pure,., 

 cool, and to the quantity fometimes of a quart from, 

 each plant. This water has been caught in the time of 

 the rains by the channeled leaves of the plant, and con- 

 veyed to their proper refervoir.. Sopae other negroes: 

 found means to relieve themfelves -fiMii^ the water -withy 

 l)wt this was not fufiident to. aflSft the dying, troops,. 



