NARRATIVE OF AN 



fame animal (which I apprehend it to be) that I have 

 defcribed under the name of the bufh-rat. 



On the 27th we again broke up, and finally arrived in 

 the forenoon, and in a forlorn condition, at the eftate 

 Soribo, on the river Pirica, to defend the plantations 

 againft Bonny and his rebel negroes. 



The river Pirica by its many windings is thought ta 

 extend about three^fcore miles. It is very deep but nar- 

 row, and has its banks, like all the others, lined with fine 

 coffee and fugar plantations ; its general conrfe is from 

 S. E. to N. W. We were fcarcely arrived at this poft, than. 

 I was accofted by feveral deputies from Colonel Seyburg, 

 who earneftly intreated that I would only acknowledge 

 myfelf to have been in fault, alTuring me that I fhould 

 then be fet at liberty, and all would be forgotten. As I 

 was confcious, however, of my own innocence, I could 

 not in common juftice criminate myfelf in an inftance,, 

 where even my alledged crime amounted to no more thaa 

 an anxious folicitude for the poor men and the provifions. 

 who were entrufted to my care. I was, therefore, placed 

 under the guard of a fentinel, for what my commander 

 was pleafed to term unpliant fiubbornnefs, and difarmed^. 

 In the mean time the marines caufed me frefh uneafi- 

 nefs, and of the moft poignant kind,, by loudly threat- 

 ening to mutiny in my behalf ; nor could any thing have 

 prevented them, but my decifive declaration, that as no 

 caufe could juftify military difobedience and rebellion, I 

 ihould be under the neceflity myfelf (however injurious 



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