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to Devil's Harwar, where he died. At length Colonel CHAP. 

 Fourgeoud himfelf was feized with this dreadful malady, ^ _ ' ^ 

 and his beloved ptifan proved to be of no more avail ; 

 yet he foon recovered, by the plentiful ufe of claret and 

 fpices, which he feldom wanted, and which his colleague 

 Seyburg alfo employed as a prefervative of his health, 

 though by fwallowing too copious dofes he frequently 

 loft the ufe of his reafon. In fuch a fituation, and in fuck 

 a defpicable encampment, our commander in chief had 

 the vanity to expert a deputation from the court at Para- 

 maribo, with congratulations on his vi6lory : in confe- 

 quence of which he had built an elegant Ihed, and fent 

 for flieep and hogs to entertain them — but the expected 

 deputies never yet arrived. 



On the 5th, therefore, the hogs and fheep were flaugh- 

 tered, and, for the Jirjl time in his life, he ordered one 

 pound per man, bones and all, to be diftributed among 

 the poor emaciated foldiers : indeed the number able to 

 partake of this bounty was at prefent very fmall. 



On the following day a reinforcement of one hundred 

 men arrived from Magdenburg, in Comewina; and from 

 the Society poft Vreedenburg, in Cottica, nearly as many. 

 Thefe confirmed the death of Enfign Strows, befides of 

 a great number of privates, who had aflifted at the tak- 

 ing of Gudo-Haby-i and who had expired in the boats dur- 

 ing their removal from Barbacoeba. 



Intelligence arrived at the fame time that the defeated 

 rebels had actually crolTed the river Cottica below Patta- 

 VoL. II, S macaj 



