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I inftantly thruft my head through the thatch, v/ith a pan- c H A P. 

 cake in mv hand, and offered to haul in the ladies; but this , 

 they civilly declined. I never faw Fourgeoud laugh fo 

 much in my life. As focn, however, as he was able to re- 

 cover his gravity, he exclaimed, Sacre Dieu I II faut etre 

 " Stedma7i,^ — // faut etre original comme liii',''^ and re-con- 

 dueled the com.pany to his own apartment, where he gave 

 me an invitation to ibllov/ them. Indeed, when Captain 

 Small and I went out, we generally fpent our time in a 

 beautiful favannah, where we had erecfled a green flied, to 

 be free in converfation, and called it Ranelagh ; here we 

 caroufed and cracked a bottle in private, till we could crack 

 no longer, having lived fo well that in a little time more 

 than a week my cheefe and bacon hams quite difappeared, 

 and not a drop of wine or rum was left in the flafks.— After 

 this he, as well as I, were obliged to live on fliort allowance; 

 while Small had the fatisfadtion, however, to fee his fliip- 

 mates do the fame : who, not being acquainted with the 

 oeconomy neceffary in a forefl:, had made all their flour 

 into plum-pudding, and were already obliged to break 

 their teeth on a piece of rye rufk. 



In fliort, fo early as the 12th, one hundred and fifty of 

 thefe newly-arrived people were already ordered to march; 

 when, by the way of feafoning them, belides heavy ac- 

 coutrements and a hammock, they had orders each man to 

 carry a fluffed knapfack on his back. Of this party, my 

 friend Small happened to be one, who being as corpulent as 

 Sir John Faljiaff^ and I having accoutred him in the above 



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