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fword to force ^them back, was inftantaneoully ihot CHAP, 

 through the body in many places, and died upon the 

 fpot ; his companion, on the other hand, received but 

 one wound, and did not expire till the ninth day after. 

 This done, the rioters, accompanied by feveral accom- 

 plices, marched in triumph to Fort Zelandia, which they 

 took without reliftance, and made themfelves mafters of 

 the gunpowder and vic5tualling magazines. After this, 

 the garrifon having joined them, they formed a ring, and 

 chofe out from among them a commander in chief, and 

 feveral other officers to whom they all fwore to be faith- 

 ful, as alfo to each other, to the laft drop of their blood. 

 What is very remarkable, is, that their new chief, the 

 very fame afternoon, ordered the body of the maffacred 

 governor, Somelfdyk, to be interred in Fort Zelandia with 

 decency and military honours ; and even the great guns 

 were fired from the walls, and three rounds with fmall- 

 arms by the rebels. 



The magiftrates and other inhabitants of Surinam now~ 

 beheld themfelves in a moft unpleafant fituation, and 

 were obliged even to enter into a capitulation w^ith the in- 

 furgents in the fort, the principal articles of which were^. 

 that the latter ihould evacuate Fort Zelandia, for which 

 they were to receive a few hundred pounds ; that they were 

 then to be permitted to embark on board the tranfport 

 fhip Salamander, to quit the colony without moleflation, 

 and to fet fail for w^hat part of the w^orld they fliould 

 prefer : they accordingly, to the amount of above one 



hundred, 



