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war, and afterwards informed they were upon their re- 

 treat from the Comawina River, where on the 5th they 

 had burnt to aflies the dwelUng-houfe of the eftate Kil^ 

 lejlyn Nova, with Mr. Slighter the overfeer in it, ran- 

 facked the whole plantation, killed and carried off thirty- 

 three women, and chopped off the limb of a male mulatto 

 child, to be revenged of its father; and that the Pirica 

 rangers were in purfuit of them. Captain Fredericy alfo 

 arrived this day, who had exchanged from the Society 

 troops into Colonel Fourgeoud's regiment of marines, 

 and confirmed to us the above unhappy news. 



About this time, after having ffarved four months, my 

 remaining ftores arrived at laft from Mocha, but three- 

 fourths rotted and deftroyed by the blata or cockroaches : 

 the remaining part I diftributed among the lick people. 

 But what proved trulyacceptable,was the cheering account 

 that Joanna amd Johnny were paft danger, and recovering 

 at Paramaribo. This intelligence indeed fo elevated my 

 fpirits, that the next morning I reported myfelf fit for' 

 duty, though God knows that I was not ; and to this I 

 was the more induced by the want of frefli air, of 

 which I was perfectly debarred in my confinement, and 

 ftood fo much in need. The fame evening a boat full of 

 Caribbee Indians rowed up Cormoetibo, for the River 

 Marawina, by the communication of the Wana Creek. 



In eight days more, which was the 20th of Decemberj, 

 being adlually recovered of the wound in my foot, and 

 Seyburg of his phrenetic fever, another officer and I 

 played him the following trick, for his bad ufage. 



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