EXPEDITION TO SURINAM, 



where they are hatched by the heat of the fun. The 

 manner of taking thefe animals is by turning them on 

 their backs with a hand-fpike when they are difcovered 

 on fliorcj and leaving them in this fituation till a conve- 

 nient opportunity occurs for carrying them away ; for 

 fuch is the heavinefs of their flrudlure, or fo languid are 

 their powers, that they are utterly unable to turn them- 

 felves, and effect their efcape. They are publicldy expofed 

 to fale by the butchers in Surinam, like the fhambles meat 

 in the European markets, and are efteemed the moft de- 

 licate food between the months of February and May, 



On the morning of the ift of February we now once 

 more went under way, and kept courfe in fhore till the: 

 evening, when we came to an anchor off the mouth of 

 the river Marawina; this river has occafioned the lofs 

 of many fhips, by feamen fatally miftakingit for the river 

 Surinam, to which its entry bears indeed a very great re« 

 femblance. What renders the Jir/i fo dangerous, are the. 

 numerous rocks, fmall iflands, and quick- lands with which i 

 it is crouded ; beiides its being fo iliallow at high-^water." 

 mark (and even with fpring-tides) that all fhips of any ^ 

 confiderable burthen immediately run a-ground^ and go - 

 to pieces. 



On the 2d, having got our anchor a-peak by day-- 

 break, we agiiin fet fiil, keeping courfe along the co .ft; : 

 when having doubled Braanfs Fo'mt with a light breezcj, 

 imder top and top-gallant fails, we finally entered the 

 beautiful river Surinam; and at three o'clock, P. M, - 

 dropped anchor before the new fortrefs called Amjler-- 



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