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CHAP, entered the river of Surinam, with fix or eight fhips of 



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a _ 1 . war, accompanied by a number of fmall veffels, in which 

 fleet were embarked 3000 men. The largeft fhips were Le 

 Neptiine of 74, on board which he himfelf commanded 



Le Temeraire of 60 guns 



Le Rubis - 56 



LaVeftale - 48 



La Parfaite - 48 



La Medufe - 36 

 The nth Caflard fent a long-boat with a white flag, 

 and an officer to treat with the inhabitants for contribu- 

 tions, which, if they refufed to pay, he threatened to 

 bombard the town of Paramaribo *. The boat, however, 

 was obliged to return on board without any fatisfacStory 

 anfwer. The river Surinam, juft before Fort Zelandia, 

 being above a mile in breadth, the Medufe and feveral 

 flat-bottomed veflels with French troops, being favoured 

 by a very dark night, found means to lail up beyond 

 Paramaribo without being obferved by the Dutch, with 

 an intention to plunder the fugar and coffee plantations 



* In the year 1667, Captain Abraham Golden Parima, on Parham Lake, took 



Cruifen gave the town the name of new their names from Francis Lord Wil- 



Middleburg ; but it was before and after loughby of Parham ; who, as I have mcfi- 



called nothing but Paramaribo, which is tioned, received this fettlement from 



faid to be the true Indian name, and Charles the Second, and was one of the 



ftiould fignify The Spot of Flowers. This firft pofleflbrs of this beautiful country, 



is the general account. But in my opi- Surinam is alfo called a province by the 



, hion not only . Parham's Point, but the Dutch, but moftly known by the name 



Para Creek, and the town of Paramaribo, of colon}', fettlement, &c. 

 pay, -even the great water called the 



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