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ing to my companions; fome blaming me much for my te- 

 merity, others damning the y^^Z^/o/^j whether dead or alive. 



The devaftation being now com.pleated, we marched 

 bact to Jerufalem, where on the 24tli we arrived per- 

 fedlly exhaufted, and Fourgeoiid at laft fo ill with a 

 phrenzy fever, that he was confined to his hammock, 

 with fmall hopes of furviving the night. But he how- 

 ever fall continued to command, and the next morning 

 ordered a marine to be baftonaded, for afking flioes, al- 

 though he was bare-footed, and his feet tore to pieces ; 

 while another was flogged for coughing, who had a fe- 

 vere cold ; a captain was difmifTed from adlual fervice, 

 and confined in Fort Zealandia, for having dared to 

 marry v/ithovit his confent. — Sicknefs and death now 

 raged through the camp, and every thing was in the 

 utmoft confulion. 



To compleat the whole, on the ifl of November, 

 twenty-five more negro Haves ran away ; and on the 3d 

 we received intelligence that no lefs than fifty armed 

 rebels had been feen fwimming acrofs the Paver Gottica, 

 about a mufket-Hiot above Barbacoeba, 



In confequence of this information. Colonel Seyburg 

 was detached, with the few men that remained able to 

 carry arms, who through diflrefs and famine were now 

 a^.moft ready to attack their own officers; and who being 

 unfupplied with their favourite luxury, tobacco*, fat 



* All failors, foldiers, and negroes are keeps up their fplrits, they Hiy, and fonie 

 particularly miferable without tobacco : it almoji prefer it to bread. 



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