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CHAP. Other hand, the dreadful havock which the wet weather 



muft produce among his troops, of which he killed, I 

 fuppofe, at the rate of twenty to one rebel negro. 



Fourgeoud was himfelf of a very ftrong conftitution, 

 having been ufed to hunting and fliooting the whole of 

 his life-time: to which he added temperance, and the 

 daily ufe of his beloved tifan. 



His drefs confifted of nothing but a waiftcoat, through 

 one of the button-holes of v/hich he wore his fword : on 

 his head he wore a cotton night-cap, with a white beaver 

 hat above it, and in his hand a cane ; but he feldom car- 

 ried his mulket or his piftols. I have feen him all in 

 rags and bare-footed, like the meaneft foldier. 



On the morning of the 3d of April, at fix o'clock, the 

 two columns fet out upon their march, the one com- 

 manded by Colonel Seyburg, the other by Four- 

 geoud ; to which laft I had the honour to belong. Our 

 poor men were now loaded like affes. They were ordered 

 to put their fire-locks in their knapfacks, of courfe the 

 muzzles excepted : this was to keep them from the rain, 

 which abfolutely poured in torrents. Our courfe was 

 fouth by eaft, up among the banks of the Tempatee 

 Creek, where we foon came to fwamps, and were 

 marching in the water above our knees. 



During the firft day's march we met fome very pretty 

 fquirrels, which are of feveral kinds in this country. 

 Thofe that we faw were brown, with the belly white, the 

 lail not fo budiy ; nor w^ere they, upon the whole, fo large 



as 



