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NARRATIVE OF AN 



CHAP. XXV. 



Singular Method of deteBing a Tbeft — Rencounter between 

 the Rangers and Rebels — Amazonian ASiion of a black 

 Girl — Wonderful Sagacity in wild Bees — 'The Regiment 

 receives a fecond Order to return to Europe, 



CHAP, ^ ^7^^-^ March, 1776, adieu' once more Para- 

 XXV. maribo, my Joanna, and my boy ! 



^"^ '"^"^ This morning, a little before I fat out, I faw a Mr. 



d'Halbergh terribly bitten by a large iguana or lizard, at 

 the very moment he was preffing me and mj com- 

 panions to ftay a few days, to be prefent at the cele- 

 bration of what he called his Silver -feaji, l^eing the 

 twenty-fifth anniverfary of his marriage ; but after con- 

 doling with him upon account of the accident, we em- 

 barked in a tent-barge, and arrived that evening at the 

 Sporkfgift eftate in Matapica. Here we were ehtertained 

 two days by Captain Mac Neai, with the greatefl hoipi- 

 tality. I was however nearly fuffocated by the fleam of 

 fome green coffee, which was fpread on the floor of the 

 lodge where I had flung my hammock. 



Late on the evening of the 29th, we arrived at the 

 Gold-mine plantation, where we found a negro boy and 

 girl, fufpended by each others fide from a high beam, by 

 a rope faftened to their thumbs, which were tied behind 



their 



