He stayed eight days, and after informing himself well of their strength, situation and intentions, he returned to us again; but that game he could not play a second time.

With his little party he was always hovering about the enemy's camp, and was frequently bringing in prisoners."** We have seen what reason was alleged by this brave fellow for not accepting the commission tendered to him by Governor Rutledge, for his gallantry in the battle of Fort Moultrie.

The nature of his services was no less a reason why he should reject the commission.

The fact that he seldom allowed himself a command of more than six men declared sufficiently the degree of authority to which he thought his talents were entitled.
* "He was a perfect Proteus, in ability to alter his appearance; perpetually entering the camp of the enemy, without detection, and invariably returning to his own, with soldiers he had seduced, or prisoners he had captured." ** Moultrie's Mem., vol.2, p.

24 .-- It was while in the exercise of his roving privileges that Jasper prepared to visit the post of the enemy at Ebenezer.