EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



ver off the feet of many wearers, who, after marching 

 through water, mud, and mire, in this filthy condition, 

 refted during the night in their hammocks, where, in 

 fair weather, before morning this filth was dried upon 

 their limbs, and in confequence caufed an itching and 

 rednefs on the fkin, which by fcratching broke out in 

 many places ; thefe wounds foon became fcrophulous, 

 and ended in open fores and ulcers, which, from the 

 want of care and proper application, often changed to 

 mortification and intolerable fwellings, by which fome 

 loft their limbs, and others even their lives when they 

 were not faved by amputation. Such were the caufes, 

 and fuch the effects of the evils we had to ftruggle with ; 

 but they were far from the whole of our wretchednefs> 

 and might be called only the precurfors of what we had 

 flill to undergo. 



At this time a compliment of a fine ham and a dozen 

 of port- wine being fent me by Captain Van Co ever den, I 

 gave all in a prefent to poor Fourgeoud, who was ema- 

 ciated with fatigue, except four bottles which I drank 

 with the other officers ; and next day, the 29th, 1 had the 

 honour to be ordered on a patrol with Colonel des Borgnes 

 and forty privates once more, to try if we could not take 

 the negroes who had croifed the creek three weeks before.. 



Having dropped down the river with a barge, in which 

 Vv^e lay all night, we landed the following morning, and 

 marched N. E. ; after which, being without a compafs, 

 we foon loft our way, and having crofted a large fand- 



VoL. L N n 2 favanna*. 



