OCCASIONAL NOTES. 



u Surinam" in Barbados. — There is a "Surinam" in Barbados, it 

 may be noted apropos of Mr. Cundall's paper. It is about forty acres in 

 extent — below Cliff — to the west of Horse Hill, in the parish of St. 

 Joseph. Two hundred years ago it was apparently a plantation. Among 

 the Island's records — found and unearthed by Mr. E. Qoulburn 

 Sinckler, the Monkbarns of Barbados — is a deed of sale, dated March 2, 

 1723. whereby Richard Husbands and his wife Jane (formerly widow of 

 John Sommers, gent.) convey to their nephew, another John Sommers, "all 

 that plantation commonly called or known by the name of Surinam (con- 

 taining 27 J acres) situate in the parish of St. Joseph." It was just this 

 little spot, evidently. Whoever named the place must have had some in- 

 terest in Lord Willoughby's colony in Guiana. Probably he had been there, 

 and came back to his island home after Surinam was ceded to the Dutch. 



" Pin. Surinam " — with its " Ten Negroe Slaves," also mentioned in 

 the Deed — went out of existence many many years ago ; the land is now 

 held by small settlers. It was once famous for its citrous fruit and cocoa 

 and coffee-trees. Since " the Dust " which fell after the last eruption in St. 

 Vincent, most of the trees have died. It is still a fruitful place, however. 

 The sail is rocky, but, being in a valley, is cool. From the Cliff one 

 looks down on quite a number of soursop and dark-leaved breadfruit 

 trees. 



" Surinam," the plantation, has gone ; but the name sticks. It is the 

 pleasant, old-fashioned Barbados way. Ask someone lower down : 

 " Where is old-man Peterkin ?" and you'll be told — with a wave up to the 

 great cliff. — " He working up in Surinam " — J.G.C. 



The Winkels of Fort Island, Essequebo. — Apropos of a paper in the 

 last number of " Timehri " on the Wiukel Village, Berbice, it is interesting 

 to note that Fort Island, Essequebo, also had its Wiukels. The site of 

 the houses of the negro artizans — belonging first to the West India 

 Company of the Netherlands and later to the British Government — is 

 shown on a chart of Great Fort Island by J. Hadfield, Crown Surveyor, 

 dated January 30, 1837, in the Lauds and Mines Department. 



First, on the east side of the island, running north to south, Hadfield 

 shows Fort Zeelandia — the great redoubt, built by Gravesande, whose 

 weathered, roofless walls one passes on the way to Bartica ; then the 

 Commandeur's Path — which started from the Fort and came out opposite 

 Hog Island ; then the Church ; the sites of the Jail and Hospital ; the 

 Burial Ground ; the Negro Ground ; and lastly " Site of Winkel Establish- 

 ment." 



The Winkels of Essequebo, no doubt, filled just the place their 

 brother Winkels filled in Berbice, — they were the Government black- 

 smiths, brickmakers and layers, carpenters, &c, and their women-folk 

 the washers and needlewomen of the old capital of Essequebo. Probably 



