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confills of a cotton fheet, negligently tied acrofs his C H A P. 

 flioulders, which protects him from the weather, and ^ ji 

 ferves him alfo to reft on ; while he always fleeps under 

 cover in the moll obfcure places he can find, when de- 

 tached from his companions. The reft of his drefs is a 

 camifa, tied around his loins like a handkerchief; his 

 pouch, which is made of fome animal's Ikin ; a few 

 cotton ftrings for ornament around his ancles and wrifts ; 

 and a fuperftitious obia or amulet tied about his neck, in 

 which he places all his confidence. The fkull and ribs are 

 fuppofed to be the bones of his enemies, fcattered upon 

 the fandy favannah. 



The two rangers who make their appearance at a dif- 

 tance may be diftinguiflied by their red caps ; and here I 

 muft obferve, that the rebels have many times availed 

 themfelves of feizing one of thefe fcarlet diftin6lions, 

 which by clapping on their own heads in an engagement, 

 has not only faved their lives, but given them an oppor- 

 . tunity of fliooting their enemies. 



Another ftratagem of theirs has fometimes been dif- 

 covered, n:iz. that fire-arms being fcarce amongft them, 

 numbers have intermixed in the crowd, with a crooked 

 fLick ftiaped fomething like a mufket ; and this appear- 

 ance has more than once had the efFe6t of preventing a 

 proper defence by the plantation Haves, when the rebels 

 came to ranfack the eftates ; while with this fhow of 

 armed numbers they have often ftnick fuch a panic, 

 and fo damped the courage of the former, that they have 



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