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A Dutch <c vendue" of faves. Attended by the eohnifls 

 hie a public fair. ®hiite a holyday or gala-meeting. Mi 

 tier of expofng the faves by autlion. Method of ex, 

 them. Their average value. Conducl of a negro who 

 ivas put up to the hammer without his wife. Author con- 

 duels his friend from African faves to free Indians. Joins 

 a party sf Indians near the river Kannye. Indifference of 

 thefe people concerning the whites. Another party pack up 

 their furniture and uienjils, and return into the woods. 

 The women bear the burden. Indians engage to cut woody 

 but cannot be relied on. They have no indifiry — nor any 

 defire to emulate the colonijls. A party from the woods come 

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Politenefs and hcfpitality of Governor Van Battenburg towards 

 the author. The Govemment-houfe. Its fituation and con' 

 fruftion* Excurfioiijrp the creek or river Kannye. EJlaie 

 cf Mynheer Ongre. Its produce in coffee — in cocoa. Num- 

 ber and value of the faves. Mode of preparing cocoa and 

 chocolate. Food> drink i plates^ di/hes, medicine, and clothing 

 till grow in the fields. Berbifche widely remote from head- 

 quarters. Uncertainty of receiving news from the army. 

 Route by which it commonly reaches Berbifche. Brave 

 conduB of a black corps at St. Lucie. The gallant Colonel 

 Malcolm falls at their head. Uncertain of remaining in 

 Guiana, the author directs his letters to befent to St. Do- 

 mingo. Garrifon n&t unmindful of the 4th of June. En- 

 chanting echo through the heavy forfis, » - 337 



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J^fetvs reaches Berbifche of the capture of the ifland of 5/. 

 Lucie. A fntinelon guard defroyed by the st Coup de So* 



