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fore him. Another of thefe animals ilept every day 

 upon one of the beams of my cottage, which it regularly 

 left every night; this was Q.'d}\Qdi yombo-yofnbo by the ne- 

 groes, from its great power in leaping : it is very fmall, 

 almoft flat, a fine yellow, with black and fcarlet fpecks ; 

 it is frequently found in the upper ftorles of houfes, 

 where it arrives by climbing up the walls. We thought 

 it a pretty little animal, and would allow nobody to 

 'hurt it. 



On the morning of the 8th, between fix and fevea 

 o'clock, whilfl we Were interring one of my ferjeants, 

 we heard the report of feveral minute guns towards the 

 river Pirica; in confequence of which, I immediately 

 detached an officer and twelve men to give affiftance. 

 They returned next day with an account that the rebels 

 had attacked the eftate of Kortenduur, where, having 

 pillaged fome powder, the plantation flaves being armed 

 by their mafter, had bravely beaten them back before 

 my affiftance could be of ufe. 



A fmall detachment from Colonel Fourgeoud at Wana 

 Creek arrived at the Hope on the nth, with September^ 

 the negro prifoner, who related that the rebels had fpoken 

 to Fourgeoud, and even laughed at him, having over- 

 heard him giving his orders, viz. not to fire on them, 

 but to take them alive : and that amongfi: thofe loft in the 

 woods was the unlucky Schmidt ^ who had lately been fo 

 unmercifully beaten, and of vv^hich he had never yet 

 recovered. 



About the 13th, the fpring floods broke down the 

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