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CHAP, hunger, having been without the article of bread for 

 Jeven clays, the oven being dropped to pieces. Aniongft 

 others, one poor fellow was nearly flogged to death for 

 having borrowed one of the colonel's Bologna faufages ; 

 for, let it be remembered, that our commander in chief, 

 whatever might be the diftrefs and hardfliips of the reft, 

 never forgot to fupport bis o\vn dignity, by at leaft half 

 a dozen of flout negroes loaded with bacon hams, Bo- 

 logna faufages, bullocks tongues, tea, coffee, fiigar, Ma- 

 deira wine, Holland's gin, &c, — 



Courage may prompt, but, ebbing our his ftrength. 

 Mere unfupported man muft yield at length : 

 Shrunk with dry famine, and with toils declin'd. 

 The drooping body will defert the mind j 

 But built anew with health-conferring fare, 

 With limbs and foul untam'd, he tires a war. 



At length, on the 8th, a barge arrived, not only with a 

 fupply of fait beef and rufk, but a bullock and two hogs, as 

 a prefent from Mr. Fel7nan,\N)iQi accompanied by his lady, 

 8cc. came a£tually on a vifit to Fourgeoud, in this very ftrange 

 encampment. The above animals being immediately killed, 

 they were diftributed among four hundred people; fo that 

 it may well be conceived the fhares, though fweet, were not 

 very large, after which the company walked about to view 

 our different habitations. Being arrived at my dwelling, 

 Fourgeoud led them round and round, but feeing no 

 door to get in, he called out, Nobody at home ?" When 



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