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Cloaths they fcorn to wear, preferring to go naked in 

 a climate where the warmth of the weather renders every 

 kind of covering an ufelefs incumbrance.. 



They might breed hogs and poultry^and keep dogs for 

 hunting and \vatchi«g them, but this they decUne, from the 

 apprehenfion of being difcovered by their noife, as even 

 the crowing of a cock may be heard in the forefl at a coa- 

 fiderable diftanee. 1 fliall now once more proceed. 



The rebels of this fettlement being apparently fubdued 

 and difperfed, Colonel Fourgeoud made it his next bufi- 

 nefs to deflroy the furrounding harveft ; and I received 

 orders to begin the devaftation, vv^ith eighty marines and 

 twenty rangers. Thus I cut down all the rice that was 

 growing plentifully in the two above-mentioned fields ; 

 this being done, I difcovered a third field fouth of the- 

 firft, which I alfo demolifhed, and made my report to 

 Fourgeoud, with which he appeared highly fatisfied. In 

 the afternoon Captain Hamel was detached, with fifty 

 marines and thirty rangers, to reconnoitre behind the vilr- 

 lage, and to difcover, if poffible, how the rebels could 

 pafs to and fro through an unfathomable marfli, whilft 

 we were unable to purfue them. This officer at length 

 perceived a kind of floating bridge amongft the reeds,, 

 made of niaurecee-trees, but fo conflruded, that only 

 one man abreaft could pafs it. On this were feated afi:ride 

 a few rebels to defend the communication, who inftantly 

 fired upon the party, but were foon repulfed by the 

 rangers, who fliot one of them dead, but he was carried 

 away by his companions. 



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