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CHAP, which is a kernel, and this is covered near half an inch 



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thick with an orange - coloured pulp, that has a moft 

 agreeable acid tafte. They are feldom ufed till the apples 

 by ripenefs drop from the tree, when the Indians fteep 

 them in water, and by maceration convert them into a 

 moft healthy and agreeable beverage. 



An exprefs on the 21ft arriving by water from Co- 

 lonel Fourgeoud, informing us that the alarm-guns* had 

 been fired in the river Pirica, we inftantly crolTed to the 

 oppofite or weft fliore of the river Cottica, where the 

 rangers, with a party of marines, were again ordered to 

 lie in ambufcade or under cover, in hopes of cutting off 

 the rebels on their retreat, when they returned to crofs 

 the Cottica river with their booty. And this very after- 

 noon a rebel negro was feen with a green hamper, who, 

 ftartled by the fmell of tobacco (for fome of the rangers 

 were fmoking) ftopt fhort of his own accord. He was 

 inftantly fired at by me and one ranger : when the wa- 

 rimbo or hamper dropped to the ground, but he himfelf 

 efcaped. This bundle we found ftuffed with a dozen of 

 the fineft table linen, a cocked gold-laced hat, and a cou- 

 ple of fuperb India chintz petticoats, &:c. the bulk of 

 which I gave to my black companion, referving only the 

 chintzes for another friend at Paramaribo, 



The free negroes now ruftiing forwards with unre- 



* By this is meant minute-guns, which neighbouring plantations, foon alarm the 

 are fired on the eftates when in clanger, whole river, and bring afliftance from 

 Thefe, being regularly anfwered by the every quarter. 



ftrained 



