EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



marcafite, which the Spaniards call Madre de Oro *. In 

 1634, a Captain Marfliall, with about Hxty Englifli, were 

 difcovered in Surinam employed in planting tobacco, 

 according tt) the relation of David Piterfe de Vries, a 

 Dutchman, who converfed with them upon the fpot. 

 In 1640, Surinam was inhabited by the French, who were 

 obliged to leave it foon after, on account 'of the frequent 

 invafions which they juftly fufFered from the Caribbean. 

 Indians, for having, like their neighbours the Spaniards, 

 treated them with the moft barbarous cruelties. In the 

 year 1650, this colony being vacant, Francis Lord Wil- 

 loughby of Parham, by King Charles the Second's per- 

 miffion, fent thither one veffel, equipped by himfelf, to 

 take poffeffion of it in the name of his royal mailer; a 

 little after which he difpatched three veffels more, one of 

 them carrying twenty guns. All thefe were well received 

 by the Indians or inhabitants of the country, with 

 whom they entered into friendly treaties, and a kind of 

 negociation. Two years after this Lord Willoughby 

 went over himfelf, and leaving feveral good and whole- 

 fome laws and regulations for the government and de- 

 fence of the colony, returned to England, whence he 

 continued to fupply the fettlement at his own expence 

 with men and ammunition. On the fecond day of June, 



* Of this extraordinary enterprizc the it was publifhed by Dr. Birch, in 175X1 

 cuiious reader may fee a full account, among the reft of Raleigh's works, 

 written by Sir Walter Raleigh himfelf, as printed for Dodfley, in two vols, oftavo. 



Vol. I. G 1662, 



