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4 detachment of the expedition proceeds to Berbifche. Scarcity 

 of frejh provifions. Author forefials the market. Pur chafes 

 a bafket of pines* Conducl of the Captain of a French pri- 

 vateer — of another republican citizen. Healthy appearance 

 of the colonifis. Demarara not lefs falubrious than the 

 iflauds. Country fat, and like Holland. Author v'ftts a 

 coffee plantation. Alluring groves and avenues of fruit 

 trees. Author fever ely attacked by their keepers. Welcomed 

 by a kind nymph of the grove, and prefented with the gar- 

 detts golden fruit. Meets a jlave with a, load of oranges. 

 Obtains leave from Mynheer Meertens to gather fruit for the 

 fck foldiers. Events favorable to the gratification of Eu- 

 ropean curiofty. A fale of fiaves. Parties #f Indians. 

 Author has a Jlave placed at his elbow during dinner. Is 

 complimented with one at his bedchamber door. Commence- 

 ment of the' wet feafon. Weflern hofpitality not confined to 

 Barbadoes. Author folicited to purchafe a female Jlave. 

 Remarks of a lady_ on hearing the cries of a Jlave under 

 punifhment. Prize money, 



Demarara, April 28. 



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aving fecure pofleffion of the colony of 

 Effequibo and Demarara, a divifion of our 

 armament has been detached to the attack of 

 the adjoining fettlement of Berbifche, which 

 feparates us from Surinam. 



