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shot dead while employed upon it, was of necessity laid CHAP. IV. aside. Thus every hope of palling through the marsh into the fortrefs being frustrated, and the food and ammunition being considerably leffened, added to the loss of many men, affairs were at length arrived at fuch a crisis, that the liege must have been broken up, and the remaining troops must have marched back to Paramaribo, had not the rangers, by their indefatigable efforts, and (however ftrange to think) implacable enmity againft the rebels, found out and difcovered to the Europeans the under-water paths of communication to Boucon, feveral being fhot and drowned in the execution of this important fervice. Captain Myland with the regulars, on this intelligence, now forded the swamp on one fide, and inftantly making a feint attack on the fortrefs, drew Baron with all the rebels, as was expected, to its defence; while Lieutenant Freidrecy, with the rangers, having croffed the fwamp on the other side, embraced the opportunity of leaping, with his black party, over the palifadoes, fword in hand, without opposition. A moft terrible carnage at this time enfued, while feveral prifoners were made on both fides, and the fortrefs of Boucon was taken; but Baron, with the greatest number of the rebels, efcaped into the woods, having first found means, however, to cut the throats of ten or twelve of the rangers, who had loft their way in the marsh, and whom he seized as they stuck fast in the M2 swamp ;