3iG N A R R ATIVE OF AN 



CHAP, hardly perceptible: the tail is formed by feven globular 

 XXVIII. divifions like beads, v*^hich terminate in a double lling ; 



this it bends over its back, to protect its young ones from 

 the attacks of other infedls: for to the creature's back the 

 young refort, after being hatched from eggs like pin- 

 heads, in a fmall web fpun by the female. The fting of 

 the land-fcorpion is not accounted fatal, but occafions a 

 violent pain, and throws the patient into a fever: it is faid 

 they change their Ikins, as crabs do their fliells. The 

 fcorpions generally frequent old trees and old furniture, 

 and are often found amongft dry rubbilli and faded grafs. 



Almoft the firft accidents that I faw here was a poor 

 fellow, a marine, going to bathe in the river, who was 

 inftantly fnapt away by a large alligator, I no fooner 

 beheld him fink and difappear, than having liripped, !■ 

 a6tually dived after the poor man, by the help of a long 

 oar, which a negro held perpendicular under water for 

 the purpofe, conftantly taking care to keep all my limbs 

 in motion. However I found him not, and tugging the 

 oar as a fignal to pull it up, the fellow, by mifcomprehen- 

 fion, pufiied both it and myftif down with fuch violence,, 

 that we did not rife again to the furface till near the 

 ipiddle of the ftream, which carried down the oar, 

 while I regained the fliore by fwimming and very great 

 exertion. 



On the 20th, being now once more ordered to march 

 on difcovery to GadoSaby^ I fet out at fix o'clock in the 

 mprning, with two fubaltern officers, three ferjeants, 



feven 



