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CHAP, ftarved, but indeed dreadfviUy haraffed by daily fatigues 

 XXI. and nightly watchings : 



" They wandered in the wildcrnefs in a folitai y way, they found 

 " no city to dwell in. 



" Hungry and thirfty, their foul fainted within them." 



- On the 24th, a detachment of one hundred and forty 

 men, commanded by two field officers, were ftill ordered 

 to deftroy the fields, and the old fettlement called Cofaay% 

 of this party I had the honour again to be one. We 

 foon performed the fervice we were fent upon, and 

 alfo picked up, out of the marfli, feveral utenfils, fuch 

 as tea-kettles, iron pots and pans, 8cc. that the rebels 

 had formerly pillaged from the eftates, and had thrown 

 into the water to conceal them from us, with an in- 

 tention, no doubt, of returning to fifli them up, as foon 

 as we were gone from Gado-Saby. 



Upon the return of the detachment in the afternoonj 

 we immediately decamped, and began to" retreat for Bar- 

 bacoeba. Here I mufl remark in Colonel Fourgeoud 

 an inftance of bad policy^ at leaft, though many have 

 not hefitated to beftow upon it a harfher epithet. This 

 evening, upon our return, when we entered the ominous 

 fwamp, he fuddenly caught up one of the empty bread- 

 boxes, and having fluffed a hammock into it, he carried 

 it before him as a fhield, crying aloud to his men, 

 « Sauve qui pent At this moment a Walloon named 



Mattow ftepped np to him, and faid, Mon Colonel, but 



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