NARRATIVE OF AN 



C H A P. XXL 



Spirited ConduB of the Rangers and Rebels — A SkirmiJJj — 

 Scene of Brotherly AffeSIion'—'The Troops return to Bar- 

 bacoeba — Plan of the Field of A&ion — A Sla-jc killed by 

 the Oroocookoo Snake. 



COLONEL Fourgeoud, on finding himfelf thus foiled 

 by a naked negro, was unable any longer to reftrain 

 his refentment, and fwore aloud he would purfue Bonny 

 to the world's end. His ammunition and provifions were 

 however expended, and if they had not, it would have 

 been in vain now to think of overtaking the enen:iy. — 

 To the furprize of moft perfons, our hero however per- 

 fevered in this impradlicable proje£l, and difpatched Gap- 

 tain Bolts, with one hundred men and thirty rangers, 

 befides a number of Haves, to tranfport a quantity of 

 fliot, and a week's provifions from Barbatoeba, and at 

 the fame time ilTued orders for the troops to fubfift upon 

 half allowance, defiring the men to fupply the deficiency 

 by picking rice, peas, and caffava, and prepare them in the 

 beft v/ay they could for their fubfirtence, and this was alfo 

 my lot, as well as moft of the officers; while it was no bad 

 fcene to fee ten or twenty of us with heavy wooden pef- 

 tles, like fo many apothecaries, beating the rice in a fpe- 

 cies of mortars, cut all along in the hard trunk of a le- 

 velled 



