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CHAP, what is very curious, broke all the eggs under a hea 

 that was fitting in a corner of the room where we were 

 engaged. The hero's features being re-compofed, I 

 proceeded, and the pidlure was completed in a fliort 

 time after, to his great fatisfadion. 



About this time the captive rebel, September, who was- 

 taken in the year 1773, ^^^^^ ^ dropfy. Ever Unce his 

 capture, when his companion was fliot, this poor fellow 

 was obliged to follow Fourgeoud like a dog through all- 

 his expeditions ; the colonel always expe6ting that this- 

 negro would, one day or other, condu61: him to different 

 haunts of the rebels — but he was miftaken. The other 

 negro flaves, fufpedting that he haxi actually given fome 

 information, attributed his dreadful death to a punifli- 

 ment from God, for his want of fidelity to his country- 

 men, to whom they fuppofed he had fworn to be true. 



The reader may remember, that I have ftated it in the 

 third Chapter, as an invariable article of belief among the 

 African negroes, that whoever breaks his oath fhall die 

 raiferably in this world, and be punifhed for ever in that 

 which is to come. 



By the 2d of June, the Hope in Comewina was become* 

 fo very unwholefome for want of cleanlinefs, and being, 

 kept free from inundations (as it was much neglected by 

 the newly-arrived troops which were now ftationed there),, 

 that the commanding officer and moft of his men were, 

 rendered unfit for duty by ficknefs, and many of them, 

 already buried. To this place Colonel Fourgeoud or- 

 dered 



