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NARRATIVE OF AN 



CHAP, a limb ; but, hungry as I was, my ftomach could not re- 



' , lifli this kind of venifon. 



A good conftitution, fterling health and fpirits, now 

 fupported me, or I mull have funk under the load of mi- 

 fery and harchhips, which were at this time become fo 

 intolerable, that the rangers again forfook the camp ; 

 and Mr. Vinfack, their condu<5lor, as brave and a6tive a 

 man as ever entered the wood, threw up his commiffion, 

 as Mr. Mongol had done before, during Colonel Four- 

 geoud's firil campaign at the Wana. 



In the beginning of September, the bloody flux raged 

 in tlie camp to fuch a degree, that the colonel faw him- 

 felf obHged to fend off all the fick officers and privates, 

 without exception, not to Paramaribo for recovery in the 

 grand hofpital that is there, but to linger and die on the 

 banks of the rivers, where they relieved others to be en- 

 camped, and undergo a fimilar wretchednefs ; the lick 

 of his own regiment being difpatched to Magdenburg in 

 the Tempatee Creek, and thofe of the Society troops to 

 Vreedenberg in Cottica. 



Colonel Fourgeoud's inhumanity to the officers was now 

 adlually become fuch, that he would not even permit thofe 

 who were paft recovery a marine to attend them, what- 

 ever price they offered ; fome of whom I have feen ex- 

 panded between two trees, while the very filth, for want 

 ■of affiftance, was dropping through their hammocks. 

 Of this number was Enfign Straws, who, in this dreadful 

 iituation^ was ordered to be tranfported in an open boat 

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