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CHAP, cion, proved however, fortunately for ire, to be without 



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foundation. 



The lilver plate I alfo purchafed from the men that 

 picked it up, determined to carry it off as a trophy, and 

 I have ufed it ever fince. Here we hkewife found three 

 ikulls fixed upon flakes, the mournful relics of fome 

 of our own brave people, who had been formerly killed ; 

 but what furprized us moft, were the heads of two 

 young negroes, which feemed as if freili cut off, thefe 

 we fince learned had been executed during the night of 

 the 17th, when we heard the hallooing and the firing, for 

 fpeaking in our favour. 



Having buried all thefe remains promifcuoufly in one 

 pit, we returned to fling our hammocks, under thofe 

 beautiful and lofty trees which I have already mention- 

 ed ; but here I am forry to add, we found the rangers 

 fliockingly employed, in playing at bowls with thofe 

 very heads they had juft chopped off from their enemies; 

 who, deaf to all remonftrance, 



** Rcfiftlefs drove the battered Jkulls before. 



And dafh'd and mangled all the brains with gore.'* 



They related that upon reconnoitring the fkirts of the 

 furrounding foreft, they had found quantities of human 

 blood in different places, which had flowed from the 

 dead and wounded bodies the rebels had carried away 

 during the action. 



To reprimand them for this inhuman diverfion would 



have 



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