SOUTH AMERICA. 



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lightning flashing incessantly, and the roar of thunder First 



Journey. 



awful beyond expression. 



Thuntler 



The fever returned, and pressed so heavy on him, that and light- 

 ning. 



to all appearance his last day's march was over. How- jever re- 

 aver, it abated ; his spirits rallied, and he marched again ; 

 and after delays and inconveniences he reached the house 

 of his worthy friend Mr. Edmonstone, in Mibiri creek, Reaches 



^ Mibiri 



which falls into the Demerara. No words of his can kcree. 

 do justice to the hospitality of that gentleman, whose 

 repeated encounters with the hostile negroes in the forest 

 have been publicly rewarded, and will be remembered in 

 the colony for years to come. 



Here he learned that an eruption had taken place in 

 St. Vincent's ; and thus the noise heard in the night of the 

 first of May, Avhich had caused such terror amongst the 

 Indians, and made the garrison at Fort St. Joachim 

 remain under arms the rest of the night, is accounted 

 for. 



After experiencing every kindness and attention from Sails for 



Granada. 



Mr. Edmonstone, he sailed for Granada, and from thence 

 to St. Thomas's, a few days before poor Captain Peake 

 lost his life on his own quarter-deck, bravely fighting for 

 his country on the coast of Guiana. 



At St. Thomas's they show you a tower, a little distance st.Thomas's 



tower. 



from the town, which they say formerly belonged to a 

 Bucanier chieftain. Probably the hwy of besiegers has 

 reduced it to its present dismantled state. What still 



