558 N A Px R A T I V E O F A N 



CHAP, the plantation Merfeille, by the fidelity and bravery of 

 , the flaves belonging to that eftate. 



On the 8th of the fucceeding month, we received the 

 news, that Colonel Fourgeoud, having difcovered and de- 

 ftroyed fome fields belonging to the enemy (who had 

 again kept up a diftant converfation with him) and hav- 

 ing found the mangled remains of poor Schmidt, who 

 had been murdered by the rebels, as I related above, was 

 once more come with his troops to Magdenberg, where 

 he encamped till the eleventh. He then re-entered the 

 forefV, previoufly fending to the Hope the fick, and with 

 them a young officer under an arrefl, in order to be tried 

 for not being able to undergo the fatigues as well as 

 himfclf. In other words, having been ordered to watch 

 two days and two nights, the youth had proved unequal 

 to the tafk, and had dropt afleep under arms, as he was 

 fitting on the ground. The climate indeed was fuch 

 that even without thefe trials nature was often over- 

 come. 



The prefervation of Fourgeoud's vigour hitherto may, 

 in a great meafure, be attributed to his continually 

 drinking a medicine he called ^i/an, in large full bafons, 

 which had a mofl naufeous tafte, and was compofed of 

 the jefuits bark, cream of tartar, and flick-liquorice, boil- 

 ed together, which he drank as hot as he could bear it, 

 and to which having accuflomed his conftitution, he 

 could not do without it. In this, however, he was fol- 

 lowed 



