9^ NARRATIVE OF AN 



CHAP, fmoking his pipe under my hammock. — " Maffera," 



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^ _ J faid he, both parties are divided in fmall companies of 

 " eight or ten men, commanded by a captain, with a horn, 

 fnch as this (fhewing me his) by which they do every 

 thing, and fight or run away. When they fight they 

 feparate immediately, lie down on the ground, and fire 

 " at the flafh of each other's pans through the trees ; 



while each warrior is fupported by two negroes un- 

 " armed, the one to take his place if he is killed, and 

 " the other to carry away the dead body, to prevent its 

 falling into the hands of their adverfaries 

 From this difcourfe I perfedlly underftood his mean- 

 ing, which I have fince feen put in practice ; and for the 

 clearer conception of the reader, I have illuflrated it v/ith 

 the following plan, where the whole engagement is ex- 

 hibited at one viev/. 



The two columns E and F are fuppofed to be firft en- 

 gaged, where N° i in the column E commences the at- 

 tack by firing at random in the oppofite bufhes ; and 

 inftantly retires, by fhifting his place to N"- 1 in the co- 

 lumn C, where he re-loads ; while N° 2 in the column F, 

 having fired at the flafh of his pan, advances in the 

 fame manner, fliifting his fiation to re -load at N° 2 in the 

 column D ; and at the fiafii of whofe pan N" 3 fires in 

 £, and receives the fire of N° 4 in &c. &c. Thus 

 continuing through both lines, till N° 8 has fired in 



* The negroes have a favage cuftom part of them v/Ith their teeth, like the Ca- 

 of mangling and tearing the dead bodies ribbee Indians, 

 of their enemies ; fome eyen devouring 



whea 



