EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



the rowers, who were healthy, young, and vigorous, look- C 

 -ed extremely well, and their heing naked gave us a full 

 opportunity of obfervmg their ikin, which was iliining, 

 and nearly as black as ebony. This fcene was however 

 contrafted by the arrival of two canoes fdled vvdth emaci- 

 ated flarving wretches, who clam.orciiflv folicited relief 

 from the foldiers, and were ready to figlit fur the poiTef- 

 fion of a bone. 



The day following our Commander in Chief was vi- 

 fited by a Mr. Rynfdorp, v^'ho introduced to him two 

 black foldiers, manumized flaves, who compofed part of a 

 corps of three hundred which had been lately formed. 

 Thefe men were exhibited by Mr. Rynfdorp as fpeciraens 

 of that valiant body, which but a fliort time before had 

 moft gallantly diftinguifned itfelf by the protedion it had 

 afforded to the colony. 



Whilft we ftill remained at anchor before the fortrefs 

 Amfterdam, I received a polite invitation from one Mr. 

 LolkenSy a planter, to whom I had been recommended, to 

 accept the ufe of his houfe and table on our arrival at 

 Paramaribo, the capital of the colony. 



On the 8th we once niore v/ent under way, and after 

 the ufual ceremonies on both fides on leaving the fortrefs, 

 fail'd up the river Surinam with drums beating, colours 

 flying, and a guard of marines drawn up on the quarter- 

 deck of each vefTel. Having at length reached Parama- 

 ribo, we finally came to an anchor witiiin piftol-fliot off 

 the flrore, receiving a falute of eleven guns from the cita- 

 del Zealandia, which was returned by all the fiiips of our 

 fmall fleet. 



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