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the bayonets, the men having orders from the com- C H A P» 



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mander in chief not to fire at any game whatever. ' 

 The animals that were killed were cut in pieces, and dif- 

 tributed among the troops, which proved, though fmall^ 

 a very feafonable damty. It is certainly very remarkable, 

 that if the firft wild boar or leader pafles through any 

 danger, all the others flupidly follow, m hopes of a 

 limilar efcape, which on the contrary, as I have faid, fre- 

 quently proves the caufe of their deftru^lion. 



On the 14th we marched S.W. till about noon, and 

 arrived at Jerufalem, which the van had reached about 

 an hour before us, all thoroughly foaked with mud and 

 heavy rains, and feveral men unhappily with ruptures 

 in the groin, by falling over the roots of trees, large 

 ftones, 8cc. Here juft arrived, we found again, to my 

 aftonifiiment, the identical Mr. Vinfack^ with one hun- 

 dred frefh rangers ; he had heard, it feems, of the 

 rebels palling Upper Cottica, and had been prevailed 

 upon to refume his command by the governor; thus 

 he now once more offered his fervice to Colonel Foar- 

 geoud, who was very happy indeed to accept it. 



Here, our camp being moftly overgrown with long coarfe 

 grafs, one of the Haves was unfortunately bitten in the 

 foot by a fmall ferpent, called in Surinam the * OrcQ- 

 cookao fnake, from its colour, which refembles an owL 



* This, I apprehend, is the fnake killed a negro in lefs than five minutes 

 which Dr. Bancrofc calls the fmall La- when he was at Demerara, 

 bora,, and which he jrieAtions as having 



