EXPEDITION TO S U R 1 N A M, 



in body and mind, and now deprefled to the loweil: ebb, 

 in my conftitution and my fpirits. My friend Heneman, 

 who viiited me every day, at this time told me that upon 

 information he had difcovered the medicine which, had 

 fo nearly killed me to be only tartar-emetick and ipeca- 

 cuanha, but in too great a quantity, viz. four grains of 

 the fird, mixed with forty grains of the latter ; the 

 furgeon having meafured my conftitution by my fize, 

 which is above fix feet. I was fo much incenfed at this 

 piece of ftupidity, that on the 4th of June, having drank 

 his Britannic Majefty's health in a rummer of Madeira, 

 and the fatal furgeon coming to make me a bow, he no 

 fooner put his foot on the landing-place, where I was fit- 

 ting in my palanquin or chair for air, than, having pre- 

 vioufly clubbed one of the poles that carried me, upon 

 my Ihoulder, I let it fall upon his guilty pericranium, 

 my ftrength being as yet too feeble to aim a blow. The 

 poor fellow no fooner felt the weight of the pole, than 

 forgetting the reft of his compliments, he fkipped back 

 into his boat with all expedition, with which he decamped 

 as faft as the negroes could row him, to our no fmall en- 

 tertainment, who faluted him with three cheers. 



About this time, while the troops were doing nothing, 

 two of the braveft men in the colony, with the rangers, 

 entered the woods, viz. Captain Fredericy, and the militia 

 captain, Stoelman ; they killed three or four of the re- 

 bels, and took a few more prifoners, who had been ftarv- 

 ing for want of fubfiftence ever fince Fourgeoud had ran- 



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