EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



for my place of reft.. But here I was again purfued by CHAP, 

 my black tormentor, who, in oppofition to all I could fay, ^" 

 infifted upon pulling off my flioes and ftockings, and in 

 a moment difencumbered me of that part of my apparel.- 

 I was extremely chagrined at her conduct, though this 

 is an: office commonly performed by the flaves in Suri- 

 nam to. all' ranks and fexes without exception. Nor 

 ought any one to conceive that this apparently extraordi- 

 nary condudl: refiilted from any peculiarity of difpolition 

 in the girl ;. her behaviour was only fuch as would havc- 

 been pradfifed. by the generality of female negro flaves, 

 and what will be found, by all who vilit the Weft India: 

 fettlements, to be charadteriftic of the whole dark lifter- 

 hood,. 



Finding in' the morning that my friend the planter 

 was not returned,, I took, leave of his manfion, and very 

 hofpitable.fervant ;. and after vifiting the foldiers in their , 

 new abodes, was condu6ted by the quarter-mafter to a 

 neat habitation, appropriated to my ufe. L found the- 

 houfe entirely unfurniflied, though not deftitute of in- 

 habitants for,, leaving my Captain's commiftion, which; 

 was of parchment, in the window, the firft night, Lhadi 

 the mortification, to find in the morniilg that it was de- 

 voured by.-the rats i. 



Having taken .pcfTeffibn of my habitation, my next wifti; 

 was to furnifh it properly; but all cares of this nature; 

 were rendered unnecefiary by the generous hofpitality ofi 

 the inhabitants ; the ladies fupplied me with tables, chairs, ;. 



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