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manner, the poor fellow could hardly walk at all; till 

 declaring to Fonrgeoud that I muft roll him along like a 

 hogfliead, he got leave to be difengaged from a part of 

 his unweildy encumbrances. 



Every thing being ready, this loaded detachment now 

 faced to the right, and fet out, with Colonel Fourgeoud 

 at their head, for the river Marawina : and while 1 muft 

 here acknowledge that this chief was now become to my- 

 felf as civil as I could expect or defire, yet jultice compels 

 me to add, that to all others he remained juft as inflexible 

 a tyrant as ever I had known him ; which character he 

 unhappily feemed to think incompatible with his rank. 



During their abfence, I crolTed the water, and cut down 

 a cabbage-tree on the other fide of the river Cottica, not 

 only for the cabbage, but for the fake of the groe-groe 

 worms, with which I knew it would fwarm in about a 

 fortnight. 



Straying here through the woods with my black boy 

 Quaco, I met with the following trees, ftill left for de- 

 fcription, viz. the cedar, the brown-heart, and the bul^ 

 let'tree. The firft, though it bears that name, is different 

 from the cedars of Lebanon, which grow in a pyrami- 

 dical form. The Surinam cedar, however, grows alfo to 

 a great height, but is principally efteemed becaufe the 

 wood is never eaten by the worms or other infects, on 

 account of its great bitternefs ; it has alfo a moft agree- 

 able fmell, and is therefore ufed in preference to moft 

 others for making chefts, cupboards, lockers, and all forts 



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