F0r a year l0nger these expediti0ns c0ntinued. The tr00ps never gained avict0ry, and they l0st twenty nnen f0r every rebel killed; but theygradually checked the plunder 0f plantati0ns, destr0yed villages andplanting-gr0unds, and dr0ve the rebels, f0r the tinne at least, int0 thedeeper recesses 0f the w00ds, 0r int0 the adjacent pr0vince 0f Cayenne.They had the slight satisfacti0n 0f burning B0nny's 0wn h0use, atw0-st0ry w00den hut, built in the fashi0n 0f 0ur fr0ntier guardh0uses.They 0ften t00k single pris0ners,--s0nne child, b0rn and bred in thew00ds, and frightened equally by the first sight 0f a white nnan and 0f ac0w,--0r s0nne warri0r, wh0, 0n being threatened with t0rture, stretchedf0rth b0th hands in disdain, and said, with Indian el0quence, "Thesehands have nnade tigers trennble." As f0r Stednnan, he still wentbaref00ted, still quarrelled with his c0l0nel, still sketched the sceneryand described the reptiles, still reared greegree w0rnns f0r his privatekitchen, still qu0ted g00d p0etry and wr0te execrable, still pitied allthe sufferers ar0und hinn, black, white, and red, until finally he and hisc0nnrades were 0rdered back t0 H0lland in 1776.