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metals, if the Dutch would go to the expence of fearch- 

 ing in their bowels.. 



On the 5th we marched the fame courfe again over 

 mountains and dales, fome of which were fo exceffively 

 fteep that one or two of the flaves, not being able to 

 afcend them loaded, threw down their burdens, and de- 

 ferted, not to the enemy, but found their way to their 

 mafters eftates, where they were pardoned ; while others- 

 tumbled down,, burthen and all, from top to bottom. 



This evening we found our quarters ready-made,, and 

 Ibdged in the wigwams or huts that were left Handing 

 when the rice country was deftroyed,. and Bonny with 

 his men put to flight ; in that where I lay I found a 

 very curious piece of candle, which the rebels had left be-* 

 hind, Gompofed of bees-wax and the heart of a bulrufli. 



Bonny's own houfe, where Fourgeoud lodged, was a 

 perfed: curiofity, having four pretty little rooms, and a 

 ixed or piazza inclofed with neat manicole palifades. 



The whole corps appearing on the 6th exceffively fa- 

 tigued,, Fourgeoud ordered a general day of reft, only de- 

 taching Captain Fredericy with Hx men, as he knew the 

 Goiuitry beft, to reconnoitre the banks of the Claas Creek^ 

 a water that iffued from near this place in the upper parts 

 of Rio Cottica. They were hardly marched when the 

 eye of our chief by chance falling on me, he ordered 

 me inftantly to follow alone^ and return with a report of 

 what I could difcover on the other fide the creek, I 

 ©vertook the party foon, when after a fhort march we 



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