. Narrative of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America; from the year 1772, to 1777: elucidating the history of that country, and describing its productions ... with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & negroes of Guinea. ?S^/iey^^ca^rfz/wy C>^Yuj^^yy/-//yo/ i%^/v<^- l^^yr^/^ /{///////y/Y. o/ • >//ur//y (p/ u^^/^^. <Xyn€- /r//i/////y/Y. O/ V- ,? .lJ, (iMn-h ;!. EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 147 creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, keeps one cool, he b
. Narrative of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America; from the year 1772, to 1777: elucidating the history of that country, and describing its productions ... with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & negroes of Guinea. ?S^/iey^^ca^rfz/wy C>^Yuj^^yy/-//yo/ i%^/v<^- l^^yr^/^ /{///////y/Y. o/ • >//ur//y (p/ u^^/^^. <Xyn€- /r//i/////y/Y. O/ V- ,? .lJ, (iMn-h ;!. EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 147 creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, keeps one cool, he bites a piece out of the tip of v««.~y--i^the great toe, so very small indeed that the head of a pincould scarcely be received into the wound, which is con-sequently not painful; yet througli this orifice he conti-nues to suck the blood, until he is obliged to disgorge. Hethen begins again, and thus continues sucking and dis-gorging till he is scarcely able to fly, and the sufferer hasoften been known to sleep from time into eternity. Cattlethey generally bite in the ear, but always in such placeswhere the blood flows spontaneously, perhaps in an artery—but this is entering rather on the province of the medi-cal faculty. Having applied tobacco-ashes as the bestremedy, and washed the gore from myself and from myhammock
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