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CHAP. " inTin he loved better in the world ; that had he com- 

 XXIX. «j manded me to march through fire as well as water, he 

 " was convinced I fliould never have left it, without ac- 

 " complifhing his orders ;" with many other fine com- 

 pliments. But I muft candidly acknowledge, that though 

 I had a heart to forgive, my mind would never per- 

 mit me to forget the many and unneceffary difficulties 

 and miferies to which I had been too wantonly expofed. 

 At the fame time he informed me, that be did not pro- 

 pofe to depart with us, but intended to follow the regiment 

 very foon, with the remains of the laft-come relief, when 

 he would render me every fervice in his power. What- 

 ever were his real motives for fuch a fudden change in 

 his difpofition towards me, fuffice it to fay, that few peo- 

 ple at this time were better friends, than were the old 

 Colonel Fourgeoud and Captain Stedman. 



In the evening I went to take a fliort farewell of my 

 moft valuable acquaintances, fuch as Mrs. Godefroy, Mr. 

 and Mvs.Demelley, Mr. and Mrs. Lolkens, Mr. and Mrs.Cor- 

 don, Mr. Gourlay, Captain Mackneal, DocStor Kiffam, &c. 

 who had all (belides Mr. Kennedy and Mr. de Graaf 

 now gone to Holland) treated me with the moft conftant 

 and diftinguifhed civility lince I had been in the co- 

 lony : but my foul was too full of a friend that wai ftill 

 dearer, to be impreffed with that fenfibility on feparating 

 from them, that it muft have felt on another occafton. — 

 And here I cannot in juftice omit remarking, that while 

 I gave the moft impetuous vent to my feelings, not the 

 fmalleft expreffion of poignant forrow, or even of dejec- 

 tion, 



