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ment from the fliips. A long-boat, with one of our c H A P. 

 captams, was afterwards difpatched to Paramaribo, to an- s..,,,,.^^^.^ 

 nounce to the governor the arrival of the troops in the 

 colony. 



During our flay in this place the companies frequently 

 walked on lliore, and I accompanied them in their ex- 

 curlions ; but the pleafure I had flattered myfdf with, 

 from exchanging the confinement of a iliip for the li- 

 berty of ranging over a delicious country, was damped 

 by the firfl object which prefented itfelf after my land- 

 ing. This was a young female flave, whofe only co- 

 vering was a rag tied round her loins, which, like her ^ 

 Ikin, was lacerated in feveral places by the flroke of the 

 whip. The crime which had been committed by this 

 miferable vi6lim of tyranny, was the non-performance of 

 a tafk to which ilie was apparently unequal, for which 

 flie was fentenced to receive two hundred laflies, and to 

 drag, during fome months, a chain feveral yards in 

 length, one end of which was locked round her ancle, 

 and to the other was affixed a weight of at leaf!: a hun- 

 dred pounds. Strongly afFedled with this fhocking cir- 

 cumftance, I took a draft of the unhappy fufferer, and re- 

 tained a dreadful idea of the inhumanity of the planters 

 towards thefe miferable fubje6ls to their power. 



The grafs in this part of the country was very long 

 and coarfe, and afforded a harbour to two fpecies of very 

 difagreeable infedts, termed Pattat and Sorapat lice by 

 the colonifts, which fettled on every part of our perfons. 



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