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CHAP, fmoking grey paper, and chewing leaves and leather a3= 

 XXIII. ^ fubftitute for the want of it. Few men, however, were 

 worfe off than I was at this time ; fince, having neither 

 provifions nor cloaths,. I was almoft naked as well as 

 flarved, with a running ulcer in my left foot, ever fince 

 the ambufcade and march to Pirica ; nor had I a friend 

 in the camp who could give me the fmalleft affiftance. 

 To compleat my mifery, the little blood I had remaining^ 

 was in ^wo fucceffive nights again nearly fucked away 

 by the vampire-bat, or fpe(5tre : thus I fainted away in 

 my hammock, and was almoft forry to recover, particu- 

 larly upon being informed by a letter that Joanna and her 

 boy were dying with a putrid fever at Paramaribo. 



Atlaft, on thei2th, Serjeant Fowler arrived from Mochay 

 with one of my boxes ; when this poor fellow, notwith- 

 ftanding my fituation, made me laugh aloud by producing 

 a letter from his mother in Europe, which made him 

 extremely happy ; and which I muft heg leave verbatim 

 to tranfcribe. 



*^ Dair Shonny, 



" I have relayed your girl from the Bridevail — and your 

 " fhits from the panbroker— the baby is died — bleffed be Goat, 

 " while I hop yow be living. I am your laffing mother tell 

 " death, Maggy Fowler." 



The fame evening Colonel Seyburg's party returned, 

 without having obtained any farther intelligence. 



On the 14th Colonel Fourgeoud was fo dangeroufly 



ill, 



