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NARRATIVE OFAN 



CHAP. 



xxvm. 



" Convulfions, epilepfies, fierce catarrhs; 



" Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, 



" And moon-ftruck madnefs ; pining atrophy, 



" Dropfiesj and afthmas, and joint-racking rheums : 



" Dire was the tofling, deep the groans j defpair 



" Tended the fick, bufiell: from couch to couch. 



" And over them triumphant Death his dart 



" Shook, but delay'd to ftrike, though ofc invok'd 



" With vows, as their chief good and final hope." 



From day to day mortality now gained ground; while 

 by fome accident, to compleat the diftrefs, part of the 

 camp got on fire ; but this was fortunately extinguifhed 

 without any material ill confequences, by the adtivity and 



On the 26th my mifery, however, drew towards an end, 

 when, to my aftonifliment, and without my aiking it, 

 Colonel Fourgeoud gave me a leave of abfence, if I chofe 

 it, to accompany him, and flay henceforth at Paramaribo ; 

 which, without hefitation, I moft joyfully accepted. Thus, 

 having made my friend Captain Small a prefent of my 

 boufe^ my Ranelagb, and all my frejb provijions, be fides 

 entertained him and fome other officers on a difh of 

 mountain-cabbage, and mj groe-groe worms, which were 

 juft come to perfedlion, befides a hearty glafs of wine, 

 I took my laft adieu from them all; and at midnight, with 

 Colonel Fourgeoud, rowed down the River Cottica in an 

 elegant barge with ten oars, in company with two more 

 of his officers. — And now farewell once more, ye fhady 



exertions of the poor negroes. 



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