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CHAP, equally good for almoft every purpofe. I was this day 

 ^. \f alfo prefented with a lingular kind of fruit, called here 

 the marmalade box, being about the fize of a large apple, 

 rather oval, and all covered over with down. This fruit 

 in the beginning is green, and when ripe it turns to a 

 brown colour : the hufk is hard, and by a certain motion 

 opens in halves like a walnut, when the pulp appears 

 like that of a medlar, being a fweet brown fubftance, and 

 adhering to large kernels, which the inhabitants fuck 

 off with avidity; and from this it derives the above 

 name. As 1 took no particular notice of the tree, I 

 am forry not to have it in my power to give any account 

 of it whatfoever. 



The 23d I marched eaft from Cofaay, with a view of 

 obtaining fome frefli accounts of the rebels ; and pro- 

 ceeded by a path of communication through cultivated 

 fields, but fell in with nothing, fome delightful views, 

 and a large herd of warree hogs, excepted, which from 

 the gnalhing of their teeth and their ftamping the ground 

 before we faw them, we had actually miftaken for a 

 ftraggling party of the enemy, and had confequently 

 frefli-primed, and prepared to engage them. 



About noon we returned to GadoSaby, where, fitting 

 down to reft from' our fatigue, a tall old rebel negro ap- 

 peared fuddenly in the very midft of us, with a long 

 white beard, a white cotton (lieet tied about his fhoulders, 

 and a broken cutlafs in his hand. Seeing this venerable 

 apparition, I inftantly flatted up, and forbidding my 



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