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Review Of New Publications.
REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS .
THE following strange circumstance is related as a part of the Captsin ' s own history . ' I cannot here forbear relating a singular circumstance respecting myself , via . that on making about four o ' clock this morning in -. r . y hammock , I was extremely alarmed at finding mysHf weltering in congealed blood , and without feeling an / pain whatever . Having started up , and run for the surgeon , with a fire-brand in one hand , and all over besmeared with gore ; to
which if added my pale face , short hair , and tattered apparel , he might well ask the question , " !! e thon ; i spirit of health or goblin damn'd , " Bring with thee airs from Heav ' n or blasts from Hell !" The mystery , however , was , that 1 had been bitten by the 'vampire or spetlr : of Guiana , which is also called the flying-dog of New Spain , and by the Spaniar' . ls / i- 'n-O'Z'e / Wcr ; this is no other than a bat of a monstrous sizethat
, sucks ,. the blood from men and cattle when they are fast asleep , even sometimes till they die ; and . as the manner in which they proceed is truly wonderful , I ' shall endeavour to give a distinct account of it . —Knowing by instinct that the person they intend to attack is in a sound slumber , they generally alig ht near the feet , where , while the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings , which keeps one cool , he bites a piece out of the tip of the great toe , so very small indeed that the head of a pin could scarcely be received into the
wound , which is consequently not painful ; yet through this 01 ifice he continues to suck the blood until he is obliged to disgorge . He then begins again , and thus continues sucking and disgorging till he is scarcely able to fiv , and the sufferer has often been known to sleep from time into eternity . Cattle they generally bite in the ear , but always in such places Where the blood flows spontaneously , perhaps in an artery—but this is entering rather on the province of the medical faculty . Having applied tobacco ashes as the
best remedy , and washed the gore from myself and from my hammock , I observed several small heaps of congealed blood all around the place where I had lain , upon the ground : upon examining which , the surgeon judged that I had lost at least twelve or fourteen ounces during the ni ght . ' ' Our duty to the cause of humanity obliges us to harrow our readers feelings with an extract , descriptive of the cruelties exercised towards slaves in Surinam . ,
Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the revolted Negroes of Surinamin Guiana , on the Wild Coast of South ylmerica ; from the Year ^ TTt to 1777 . By Capt . J . C . Stedman . In Two Volumes 4 . W . pages 812 . Price 3 ! . 3 s , [ . COSCLUDF . D FHOM OUR LAST . 3
' The first object which attracted my compassion during a visit to a neighbouring estate , was a beautiful Samboe girl of about eighteen , tied up by both arms to a tree , as nuked as she came into the world , and lacerated
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Review Of New Publications.
REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS .
THE following strange circumstance is related as a part of the Captsin ' s own history . ' I cannot here forbear relating a singular circumstance respecting myself , via . that on making about four o ' clock this morning in -. r . y hammock , I was extremely alarmed at finding mysHf weltering in congealed blood , and without feeling an / pain whatever . Having started up , and run for the surgeon , with a fire-brand in one hand , and all over besmeared with gore ; to
which if added my pale face , short hair , and tattered apparel , he might well ask the question , " !! e thon ; i spirit of health or goblin damn'd , " Bring with thee airs from Heav ' n or blasts from Hell !" The mystery , however , was , that 1 had been bitten by the 'vampire or spetlr : of Guiana , which is also called the flying-dog of New Spain , and by the Spaniar' . ls / i- 'n-O'Z'e / Wcr ; this is no other than a bat of a monstrous sizethat
, sucks ,. the blood from men and cattle when they are fast asleep , even sometimes till they die ; and . as the manner in which they proceed is truly wonderful , I ' shall endeavour to give a distinct account of it . —Knowing by instinct that the person they intend to attack is in a sound slumber , they generally alig ht near the feet , where , while the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings , which keeps one cool , he bites a piece out of the tip of the great toe , so very small indeed that the head of a pin could scarcely be received into the
wound , which is consequently not painful ; yet through this 01 ifice he continues to suck the blood until he is obliged to disgorge . He then begins again , and thus continues sucking and disgorging till he is scarcely able to fiv , and the sufferer has often been known to sleep from time into eternity . Cattle they generally bite in the ear , but always in such places Where the blood flows spontaneously , perhaps in an artery—but this is entering rather on the province of the medical faculty . Having applied tobacco ashes as the
best remedy , and washed the gore from myself and from my hammock , I observed several small heaps of congealed blood all around the place where I had lain , upon the ground : upon examining which , the surgeon judged that I had lost at least twelve or fourteen ounces during the ni ght . ' ' Our duty to the cause of humanity obliges us to harrow our readers feelings with an extract , descriptive of the cruelties exercised towards slaves in Surinam . ,
Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the revolted Negroes of Surinamin Guiana , on the Wild Coast of South ylmerica ; from the Year ^ TTt to 1777 . By Capt . J . C . Stedman . In Two Volumes 4 . W . pages 812 . Price 3 ! . 3 s , [ . COSCLUDF . D FHOM OUR LAST . 3
' The first object which attracted my compassion during a visit to a neighbouring estate , was a beautiful Samboe girl of about eighteen , tied up by both arms to a tree , as nuked as she came into the world , and lacerated