126 ^' NARRATIVE OF AN 



C H A P. tlie mode of arranging them during our encampment 

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,^ ' . in the woods of Guiana, which camps were generally of 

 a triangular form, as being moft fecure in cafe of a 

 furprize, and the eafieft to defend our provifions and 

 ammunition ; but the fituation of the ground would not 

 always permit this, and then we encamped in any fojm, 

 fquare, oblong, or circular, &c. — In the annexed plan,,- 



N" I. Is the hut or fhed of Colonel Fourgeoud, or 

 the commanding officer, in the centre, with a fentinel. 



N° 2. The huts of all the other officers, in a fmall 

 triangle, furrounding that of the commander in chief. 



N" 3. The angles of the outer triangle formed by the 

 huts of the privates in three divifions, viz. the main 

 body, the van, and the rear guards, with fentinels at 

 proper diftances, to cover the front of each. 



N" 4. Powder-chefts, provifions, and medicines, with 

 a fentinel. 



N* 5. The fires in the rear of each divifion to drefs 

 the victuals, and round which the negro Haves are lodged 

 upon the ground. 



N* 6. A coppice of manicole-trees to ere6t the huts or 

 fiieds. 



N" 7. A rivulet or creek to provide the troops with 

 frefh water. And, 



8. The furrounding foreft. 



I muft now return once more to my narrative, and 

 obferve, that Barbacoeba, inftead of being in a ftate of 

 fending provifions to Gado-Saby, as our <:hief had ex- 

 I pelted, 



