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been calmly permitted, after burning their houfes, everE 

 to carry away their wives and daughters. 



On the i6th we continued our march due E. upon a 

 ridge or elevated ground. Thefe ridges, if I miftake not^ 

 run generally in this country E. and W. as do alfo moft 

 of the marflies and fwamps. Having advanced rather a. 

 lefs diftance than we did the day before, we were ordered 

 early to fling our hammocks, and to fleep without any 

 covering, to prevent the enemy from hearing the found 

 of cutting the trees; nor were any fires allowed to be 

 lighted, nor a word to be fpoken, while a ftri6t watch was 

 kept round the camp. Thefe, in fa6t, were all very ne- 

 ceiTary precautions ; but if we were not difcovered by the 

 enemy, we were almoft devoured by the clouds of gnats 

 or mufquitoes, which arofe from a neighbouring marfli : 

 for my own part I fufFered more here than I had even 

 done on board the fatal barges in the upper Cottica, as> 

 we could make no fmoke to drive them away. In this^ 

 iituation I faw the poor men dig holes with their bayonets 

 in the earth, into which they thruft their heads, flopping 

 the entry and covering their necks with their hammocks^ 

 while they lay with their bellies on the ground. To fleep 

 in any other pofltion was abfolutely impoffible. 



By the advice of a negro Have, I however enjoyed my 

 reft. — " Climb," faid he, maflera, with your hammock 



to the top of the higheft tree that is in the camp, and 

 " there go fleep ; not a lingle rnufquito will diftarb you, 

 <* the fvvarm will be fufficiently attra<Sled by the fmefl of 

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