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CHAP, interredj who had been fhot in fome former fkirmifla by 

 the Europeans. 



Here Captain Fredericy and myfelf, walking without 

 the fkirts of the camp in a fandy favannah, difcovered 

 the freHi footfteps of a large tiger with her young, at 

 which time they are extremely ferocious : we thought 

 it prudent therefore to make a fudden retreat. 1 mea- 

 fured the diameter of the dam's claws printed in the 

 fand, which were nearly of the dimenlions of an ordi- 

 nary pewter-plate. 



Having marched a few hours longer the fncceed- 

 ing morning, we at laft arrived at the Society poft La 

 Rochelle in Patamaca; fuch a difplay of meagre, ftarved, 

 black, burnt, and ragged tatterdemallions, and moftly 

 without llioes or hats, as I think were never before be- 

 held in any country. They could be compared to no- 

 thing but a gang of gypfies, while their leader was not 

 unlike Bampfield Moore Carew, and myfelf at beft Uke 

 the forlorn Grufoe in his worft condition, with my only 

 check ihirt and the one-half of my trowfers, the reft 

 being torn away. Here we found a fet of poor wretches 

 ready to enter the woods which ^ve had juft left, and def- 

 tined to undergo in the fame manner the fevereft mifery 

 that ever was inflided on fublunary beings. I have al- 

 ready mentioned the prickly heat, ring-worm, dry gripes, 

 putrid fevers, biles, confaca, and bloody flux, to which 

 human nature is expofed in this climate ; alfo the miif- 

 tpitoes, Patat and Scrapat lice, chigoes, cock-roaches, 



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