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CHAP, rewarded by the prefervation of my life, principally owing 

 to their unremitting care and attention, while fuch num- 

 bers fell all around me, and more were ruined in their 

 conftitution, the vidlims of the climate and the fervice, 

 fome having loft the ufe of their limbs, and fome of their 

 memory ; nay, one or two were entirely deprived of their 

 mental faculties, and continued in a ftate of incurable in- 

 fanity for ever. 



In fliort, out of the number of near twelve hundred 

 able-bodied men, not one hundred returned to their 

 friends and their country : and perhaps not twenty 

 amongft thefe were to be found in perfedt health. A- 

 mong the dead were (including the furgeons) between 

 twenty and thirty officers ; three of which number were 

 colonels, and one a major. So very deftrudtive was the 

 fervice to Europeans in fuch a climate ; and fuch ever 

 muft be the refult of the moft fuccefsful operations in the 

 unwholefome atmofphere of woods and marflies. 



One or two remarks I muft make before I conclude 

 this fubje6t, which are : — Firft, that among the officers 

 and private men who had formerly been in the Weft In- 

 dies, none died, while among the whole number of above 

 one thoufand privates, I can only recoiled: one lingle ma- 

 rine who efcaped from ficknefs ; and next, that of the few 

 belonging to the corps that were now on their voyage for 

 the Texel (thofegentlemen alone excepted, who at this time 

 ' belonged to the ftaff") I myfelf was the only officer who 

 had failed out with the regiment in 1772. This laft was a 



pleafing 



