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CHAP, the enemy, was now determined to march in a very few 



^^^^^ days. 



On the 14th I arrived with a boat at Barbacoeba, in the 

 upper part of (he river Gottica, where formerly I was 

 when I killed the aboina fnake. I found here the old 

 gentleman (who civilly welcomed me) ready to ftart the 

 following day. I never faw the troops in fuch fine fpi- 

 rits, or fo eager for fervice; which proceeded from differ- 

 ent motives, as I had faid before, fome in the hopes of 

 plunder, fome from revenge on the rebels, and fome 

 from a w^ifli to fee' the war at an end ; while I believe 

 in my foul, that others were tired of exiftence by con- 

 tinual illnefs and hard fervice ; and heartily willied for 

 a gloriovis end of all their miferies— as nothing can be 

 more wretched than a foldier's or a failor's life, perpe- 

 tually foaking in the wet or fcorching in the fun, fur- 

 rounded by an unbounded foreft, and in a tropical 

 climate. 



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