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woods, thou pleafing gloomy foreft, pregnant with fo chap. 

 many wonders, and fo many plagues, and which, in the 

 opinion of fo many fufferers, even furpaffed the ten 



plagues of Egypt ! 



— " I have fent among you the peftilence after the 



" manner of Egypt : your young men have I flain with the fword — 

 " I have made the ftink of your camps to come up unto your 

 noftrils : yet have ye not returned unto me, faith the Lord." 



The boat being fhoved off. Colonel Fourgeoud now 

 declared to us, that having ranfacked the foreft in every 

 direction, and driven the rebels over the Marawina in 

 Cayenne, he was determined no more to return to the 

 woods, but in a few weeks to draw the long and painful 

 expedition to a conclulion. 



Now, reader, it remains with you to acknowledge that 

 I have not led you about the buJJy, but through it, with in- 

 defatigable perfeverance : the more fo, when it is to be 

 confidered that in the middle of the above hurry and 

 diftrefs, under which fo many have funk, I have often 

 been deprived of pen, ink, 2.u<\ paper to make proper an- 

 notations ; which laft defeat I have even more than once 

 fupplied by writing with a pencil on my cartridges, or on 

 a bleached bone : had this not been unavoidably the 

 cafe, more accuracy and many more remarks might with 



* Should it be remarked that during geons and even cooks, though both of lit- 



this expedition fome unchriftian-like ex- tie ufe, had been provided, nothing like 



preffions have efcaped, let it be at the a par/on was ever feen amongft us, from 



fame time recoHedtedj that while fur- the day we failed from the Texel. 



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