^EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



'^vlien the whole have Ihifted their flations ; and the 

 fame manoeuvre is continued with the columns C and D, 

 beginning again with the identical numbers i, 2, 3, &:c. 

 at the top ; while thefe lines, having fhifted their places, 

 ftill the firing is repeated by the lines ^ and B, and thus 

 ad infinitum, until by founding the horn one of the 

 parties gives way in flight, and the battle is over. I fliall 

 only add, that when the foreft is thick, inftead of lying 

 on their bellies, or kneeling, each negro ikulks behind a 

 thick tree, which ferves him as a bulwark, and from 

 which he fires at his adverfary with more certainty and 

 lefs danger, ufually refting his piece againft the trunk, 

 or in the forked branches, like the Sbawanefe and Dela- 

 zvare Indians. 



Captain Hannibal alfo informed me, that the famous 

 chief Bonny was fuppofed to be in perfon amongft the 

 neighbouring rebels ; and that he was born in the foreft 

 amongft them, notwithftanding his being a mulatto, 

 which was accounted for by his mother efcaping to the 

 woods from the ill treatment of her mafter, by whom 

 file was then pregnant. 



Having frequently mentioned the different (hades be- 

 tween a black and a zvbitg, the fame plate reprefents 

 them to the reader at one view. From the above two 

 colours the mulatto is produced ; from the mulatto and 

 black, the famboo ; from the mulatto and white, the 

 quaderoony &c. &c. — This fable warrior made me alfo 

 acquainted with the names of feveral other rebel com- 



O 2 manders, 



