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with larQ-e green leaves, which the negroes ufe for the chap. 



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 cure of a diforder in the feet called confaca, when they , _ '_, 



can procure no limes or lemons, as I have already men- 

 tioned : this plant alfo makes an excellent fallad. The 

 dea-weeree-weeree is a fine wholefome herb, and very 

 much efteemed ; but the cutty-zveeree-weeree is amongft 

 the mod ferious pefts in the colony, being a kind of 

 ftrong edged grafs, which is in fome places very plen- 

 tiful ; and when a man walks through it will cut his 

 legs like a razor. Herbs in general are in this country 

 known by the name of weeree-weeree by the negroes. 



On the 5th, I arrived at Magdenberg. Here Colonel 

 Seyburg, and what he called his officers, feemed to 

 form a diftindl corps from thofe of Fourgeoud. They 

 appeared totally deftitute of politenefs, and treated each 

 other with the greateft rudenefs, while their colonel was 

 moft cordially hated by the commander in chief. This 

 ftate of things contributed to render our fituation ftill 

 more difagreeable : I however had at this time little 

 reafon to complain, being for the prefent, at leail, in the 

 good graces of Fourgeoud, which, by a trifling accident, 

 I had nearly again forfeited. Colonel Fourgeoud having 

 purchafed of fome Indians a couple of moft beautiful 

 parrots, called here cocatoos, which were in a cage ready 

 to be fliipped off as a prefent to her royal highnefs the 

 princefs of Orange, I perfuaded Monfieur Laurant, his 

 valet-de-chambre, to take one of them out, that I might 

 the better examine it, but the cage-door was no fooner 



openedj 



