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CHAP, he was already firipped. The following day, neverthelefs, 

 , evinced that 1 could punifli when things were carried too 

 far ; for feeing a large piece of boiled pork (about two 

 pounds weight) flying pall me with great velocity, and 

 finding it was thrown by one marine to another, while 

 they had got a quarrel, I inftantly ordered them to pick, 

 it up, and (having cut it in two) I ftood over them my- 

 felf till they fwallowed every morfel of it in my prefence, 

 fand and all, without either bread or drink : which they 

 jfince declared was fuch a punillimenfe as furpalTed my 

 conception, and they fliould remember it to the end of 

 their lives. 



On the 23d, I received from town a well-timed fupply 

 of wine and frefli provifions ; and the fame day Colonel 

 Fourgeoud, with his detachment, arrived from the Mara- 

 Avina. During this trip, our adive commander had 

 again difcovered and deftroyed fifty-nine houfes, befides 

 three fields of provifions. This certainly gave the finifii- 

 ing blow to the rebel negroes, fince, having no further 

 fupply on this fide the water, they entirely abandoned itj 

 and went to fettle in the French colony Cayenne. In this 

 hard though neceflTary fervice the men had fuffered pro- 

 digioufly, efpecially thofe newly arrived ; numbers of 

 whom were carried in hammocks on poles, while near 

 thirty were left fick at the Marawina, and my friend 

 Small was at leaft one fiione lighter. 



At this time, in the camp hofpital, above one hundred 

 were alfo dangeroufly ill. Nothing was heard but fighs 



and 



