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NARRATIVE OF AN 



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CHAP, brought to Magdenberg, where, by a ikilful furgeon, 



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' ^^ Mr. Knolaert, the wound was fewed up, and the man 

 furprifingly recovered, having lain nine days in that 

 dreadful condition without any fubfiftenc6 or covering 

 whatever, and weltering in his own blood, even without a 

 bandage. The week after I had nearly loft my own life 

 by an accident. Two negroes of the eftate Goet- Accord 

 being employed in hunting and fiihing for Fourgeoud, 

 one of them, named Pi?i/ander, propofed to me to accom- 

 pany them in the wood, where we might chance to meet 

 with fome pingoes, or powe/a; but a heavy fliower of raia 

 coming on, when we had only . walked two miles, we de- 

 termined to relinquifh the project, and repair to the fmall 

 fpot called the Jacob for fhelter, to gain which we were 

 obliged to pafs through a deep marfh. Having waded 

 till up to our arm-pits, Philander, who was the fineft man 

 without exception that I ever faw, began to fwim, as did 

 his companion, with one hand, holding their fowling 

 pieces above the water with the other, and delired me 

 to follow them. This I tried, having nothing on but 

 my fhirt and trowfers ; when, after fwimming two or 

 three ftrokes, I fuuk to the bottom like a ftone, with 

 the weight of my mufquet ; but relinquifhing it, I im- 

 mediately rofe to the furface, and begged that Philan- 

 der would dive for it ; who having fecured his own to a 

 mangrove, brought it up without difficulty. At this mo- 

 jnent a thundering voice called out through the thicket, 



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