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CHAP, differs from the former in having twenty toes, the head 

 ^ XXVIII. ^ being thicker in proportion, and the tail foialler, which 

 is variegated with bands of bluck and yellowifli white. — 

 A leiTer fpecies ftill is called the fourmillier^ which, how- 

 ever, never came within my obfervation. — But to pro- 

 ceed. 



On the 3d, fix more barges with troops came up from 

 Paramaribo, which compleated the nnmber of three hun- 

 dred and fifty men arrived from Holland. Amongft thefe, 

 being informed there was a Captain Charles Smally come 

 from the Scots Brigade, this gentleman having exchanged 

 with poor Enfign Macdonaid (who was fent over lick) 

 I inftantly fculled down the river alone in a canoe to meet 

 him, and offer him my affiflance. I had no fooner got 

 on board his barge, than I found him fufpended in a 

 hammock with a burning fever. He, not knowing me 

 ■on account of my drefs, which was no better than that of 

 the moft ragged failor, afked me what I wanted ; but 

 when he faw in me his poor friend Stedman, changed 

 from a itout fprightly young fellow, to a miferable debi- 

 litated tatterdemallion, he grafped me by the hand, with- 

 out uttering a word, and burfl into tears : which agitation, 

 while it increafed his illnefs, fhewed the goodnefs of his 

 heart to me, more than any thing he could have uttered 

 on the fubje6t. — " D — n your blubbering, Charles 1" faid 

 I ; " turn out of this {linking cockle-fliell : I'll prefently 

 " cure thee ;" — and getting him hoifled into my canoe, I 

 brought him on Ihore to my own habitation, but with 

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