92 / NA-RRATIVE OF AN 



CHAP. This evening we encamped about four o'clock, Colond' 

 ^ _ • ^ Fonrgeoud being feized with a cold fit of the ague. 



As I was flinging my hammock between two large 

 branches, but not fo high as the preceding night, my eye 

 chanced to fall upc. a what I conceived to be the leaf of a tree, 

 but w hich appeared to move and crawl up the trunk. I 

 called feveral officers to fee it : when a gentleman of the 

 Society exclaimed, " Cejl la feuille ambulante,'' That is 

 the walking leaf. Upon clofer examination it proved to be 

 an infecft, whofe wings fo perfedly reprefent a leaf, that 

 by many it has been miflaken for a vegetable produdtion. 

 This feemed to be a fpecies of grafshopper, but covered 

 over with four wings of an oval form, and about three 

 inches in length, the two uppermoft fo folded together 

 as to appear exadlly like a brown leaf, with all the 

 fibres, &c, 



I now returned to my hammock; where, refle(5ling on 

 all the wonders of nature, while the filver-moon glittering 

 through the verdure added beauty to the fcene, I fell 

 into a profound fleep, which I enjoyed till near midnight^ 

 when we were all awaked in pitch darknefs and a heavy 

 jfhower of rain, by the hallooing and fliouting of the 

 rebel negroes, who difcharged feveral mufkets; but as 

 the lliot did not reach our camp, we were extremely 

 afloniihed, the darknefs rendering it impofiible to form 

 any juft idea of their meaning. This difcurbance con- 

 tinuing till near day-break, made us expe6t every mo- 

 ment to be furrounded, and keep a very lharp look-out. 



In the morning early we unlalhed our hammocks, and 



marched 



