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the e .ates in making their defence ; alfo that at Paran^a- 

 ribo, an infurredion was difcovered among the negroes, 

 who had determined to join the rebels, after firft having 

 maffacred all the inhabitants ; that, however, they were 

 detected, and the ringleaders executed. 



On the morning of the 6th, we again heard feveral 

 mufquet-fliot in the woods, which apprehending to be 

 fome European party that had loft their way, I made my 

 fentinel anfwer the iignals of diftrefs, by firing his piece 

 alternately w^ith theirs, fliot for fliot, to Vv^hich I added 

 two drums, that kept beating for feveral hours without 

 intermiffion, when the report of their fire-arms gradu- 

 ally approached nearer and nearer : and now at lepgth 

 appeared a Society ferjeant and fix privates that belonged 

 to Reedwyk in Pirica, and had been loft in the foreft for 

 three days, nearly ftarved, without hammocks, meat, or 

 drink, excepting water. Having refrellied them in the 

 .beft manner I was able, they all recovered to my very 

 .great fatisfadlion, though one of them remained perfectly 

 Hind for feveral hours, with the fting of a kind of wafps, 

 which are known in this country by the name of ma- 

 robonfo ; of which the only -thing that I can fay is, that 

 they are extremely large, live in hollow trees^ are the 

 ftrongeft of the bee kind, and fting fo violently, that the 

 pain is excruciating, and always occafions a fever. 



Having, on the 12th, fwam twice acrofs the river Cot- 

 tica, which is above half a mile broad, I came home in a 

 ihiver, and next day had an intermitting fever : by ati^ 



ftainingj 



