June 14th, 1776
For two hours today, I stoked a fire to burn barrelfuls of pork we found blighted with rot. Thus my employment.
Dr. Trefusis, who went to minister to Slant, delivers word from the sick-camp that one of the inmates of that place has refused food. Against orders, he left his mattress today and walked to the eastern shore of the island, followed by a crowd of devotees; and there, he knelt upon the dirt of his brethrens’ graves, and began to eat that dirt, shoveling it into his mouth.
He says he commences a ghost.