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CHAP, grunting noife which they emit like moft other tropical 



They concluded by affiiring me, that though they were 

 fcarce, nothing was more dreaded by their wives and 

 children, than the Watra Mama^ which fignifies the 

 mother of the waters ; and by which name, ftrange to 

 tell, they diftinguifh their Sybils, — -So much for the mon- 

 Jiers of the deep ; and now I lhall once more return to 

 thofe infefling Terra Firma. 



I have juft mentioned, that, on account of a very bad 

 foot, I had been returned unfit for duty by the fur- 

 geon, on the 19th of November ; yet this day, Decem- 

 ber 5th, another furgeon, with two captains, and the 

 adjutant, were fent to infpedl both me and Captain 

 Perret, who was alfo lick. The furgeon gave his de- 

 claration upon oath, that we were incapable of walking 

 without danger, much more of undergoing fatigue ; but 

 Seyburg, who was ftill in his phrenzy fever, declared we 

 fliould inftantly enter the woods, though he fhould fee 

 us carried in two wheel-barrows. Poor Captain Perret 

 complied to turn out, though he looked like a ghoft, and 

 could fcarcely ftand ; but I folemnly fwore that I would 

 blow out the firft man's brains who dared diJrefpeBi fully 

 to touch me : in confequence of which I was clofe guard- 

 ed by a fentinel ; while the whole camp, upon my foul, 

 now feemed to be compofed of none but madmen. 



On the nth we received intelligence that a number of 

 armed rebels had been juft feen oppolite to Devil's Har- 



filh and amphibious animals. 



war, 



