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CHAP. Having invited this gentleman-, with his adjutant, and a 

 XXIII. more, to fee us a6l a farce by candle-light, we af- 



fecSled to quarrel, and beating out the candle, the door 

 being well fecured, laid on in the dark with fuch fuccefs 

 vipon a certain fomebody's fhoulders, that, calling out 

 Murder ! he leaped out at the window. Nothing ever 

 gave me greater entertainment than to perceive his agi- 

 lity ; but Colonel Seyburg declared he would never more 

 to our play be a fpedtator. 



At this time orders arrived from Colonel Fourgeoud, 

 who was alfo better, to break, up our cami Jcrufalem, 

 and march once more to the Wana Cr-ek, ir. confe- 

 quence the lick were again fent down in bargee; to the 

 hofpital at Devil's Harvvar, which was ncL,rly fud, while 



' • feveral were labouring under a difeaf^3 fomething like 

 the tympany, called here the kook, being a prodigious 

 hardnefs and fwelling in the belly, occafioned, it is faid, 

 by drinking muddy water without fpirits, which was in* 

 deed our daily and general beverage. 



On the 22d, at fix o'clock in the morning, we all de- 

 camped, and fcrambled up along the banks of the Cormoe- 

 tibo Creek, through a perfe(5l bog, while one poor ne- 

 gro, who had his head fra(5tured, was left behind, and 

 another knocked over-board one of the barges, who was 

 drowned. 



We this day again faw great numbers of pingoes or 

 warree-hogs, which as ufual breaking through our line, 

 were cut down by fabres and llabbed, while fome ran 

 off with the bayonets fticking in their hams. 



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