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CHAP, as a bafon, plate, &c. in the foreft. The neproes ^e- 

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^ nerally adorn them by carvmg on the outer ikin many 



fantaftical figures, and filling up the vacancies with 

 ehalk-dufT, which fometimes has a very pretty effe6t. 



The rangers having been out to reconnoitre, returned 

 on the afternoon of the 23d, and reported that they had 

 difcovered and deftroyed another field of rice^o the N. E. 

 This pleafed Colonel Fourgeoud very well; but when in 

 the dufk. of the evening I obferved to him, that I faw 

 feveral armed negroes advancing at a diftance, he turned 

 pale, exclaiming, Nous fommes perdus I'^ and ordered 

 the whole cam.p immediately under .arms. In a few 

 feconds thefe negroes were near enough to be difcerned, 

 and we now faw that feveral of them were carried upon 

 poles, in hammocks. Fourgeoud then faid, " We ftill are 

 ruined, though not the enemy : 'tis Captain Bolts, beaten 

 back, with all his party and this proved literally to 

 be the fa6l, when that unfortunate officer (having deli- 

 vered the wounded to the furgeons) made his report, 

 -that having entered the fatal fwamp where Captain Mev- 

 land had been defeated, he was attacked by the enemy 

 from the oppofite fhore, who, without hurting a fingle 

 European, had made a dreadful havock amongft his 

 .rariger.s\ that Captain Valentine^ a brave young fellow^ 

 belonging to that corps, whilft founding his horn to ani- 

 mate his countrymen, had it fhot away, with his pouch 

 alfo, and was himfelf mofl defperately wounded m jive 

 different parts of the body. In this fit nation he v,:as met 



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