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of the fame opinion, v/hich he fupports (I think need- CHAP, 

 lefsly) by a quotation from QuintiHan. iJ-iJ-ll-» 



Though the Arrowouka Indians Uve in perfe6l friend- 

 fliip and harmony with us, and indeed with moft of their 

 neighbours, they yet fometimes go to war when pro- 

 voked, as I have juft obferved ; in thefc combats they 

 ufe bows and arrows, and the club called adowlozv* ; 

 but they do not eat their prifoners like the Caribbee In- 

 dians, who even devoured the negroes whom they killed 

 at the infurre(51:ion in Berbice. Notwithftanding thefe 

 people live at a greater didance from the fea than the 

 Warrows, 8cc. yet they have canoes, fometimes fourfcore 

 feet in length, in Vv^hich they paddle down the rivers, 

 The Arrowouka Indians particularly are great herbalifts, 

 and for all external accidents have recourfe to fimples, 



with which the woods of all Terra Firma abound. 



But to proceed : - - 



On the 25th I was feized with a fever, and blooded in 

 the foot, in which the orifice being Jlruck too deep, for 

 ftruck it was as they bleed the horfes, I again became 

 lame ; during which time Colonel Seyburg arrived from 

 the Java Creek to recover, he being at laft alfo taken 

 very iil. 



In the mean time Colonel Fourgeoud, while he was 

 juft ready to renew his operations, having already fent a 

 fmall detachment to the Jew Savannah for intelligence, 

 received letters from the Hague, with exprefs orders to 



* The New Zealanders call their clubs pato-patoo ; which affiiiity is remarkable, 

 pn account of their very great diftance. 



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