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CHAP, day, or the next ; and concluded by declaring that Bonny 

 fliould foon be the governor of the colony. 



After this they tinkled their bill-hooks, fired a volley, 

 ' ^ and gave three cheers ; which being anfwered by the 

 rangers, the clamour ended, and the rebels difperfed with 

 the riling fun. 



Our fatigue was great; yet, notwithftanding the length 

 of the conteft, our lofs by the enemies fire was very in- 

 con (iderable, for which I promifed to account; and this 

 myftery was now explained, when the furgeons, dreffing 

 the wounded, extra^ed very few leaden bullets, but many 

 pebbles, coat-buttons, and pieces of filver coin,which could 

 do us little mifchief, by penetrating fcarcely more than 

 fkin deep. We alfo obferved, that feveral of the poor rebel 

 negroes v/ho were fhot,, had only the fliards of Spa-water 

 cans, inftead of flints, which could feldom do execution j 

 and it was certainly owing to thefe circumilances that we 

 came off fo well, as I have mentioned before ; yet we 

 were neverthelefs not without a number of very dan- 

 gerous fears and contufions. 



Inconceivable are the many expedients which thefe 

 people employ in the woods, where in a ftate of tranquil- 

 lity they feemed, as they boafted, to want for nothing,, 

 being plump and fat, at leaft fuch as we had an oppor- 

 tunity of obferving. It Ihould be noticed, ih^Lt game and 

 y$/Z> they catch in great abundance, by artificial traps andi 

 fprings, and preferve them by barbacuing ; while their 

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