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defperate negro, called Zam Zam, who not having been 

 confulted concerning the treaty of peace, had afterwards 

 put himfelf at the head of a ftrong party, and now car- 

 ried off the whole ftock of the detachment, confifting of 

 arms, ammunition, checked linens, canvas cloth, hatchets, 

 faws, and other carpenter's tools ; befides fait beef, pork, 

 ipirits, &c. and kept them as his own private property. 

 Adoe, on the other hand, not receiving the prefents at 

 the time he expedled, too haftily concluding he was only 

 to be amufed with expectation till a reinforcement of 

 troops fhould arrive from Europe to fubdue him, renew- 

 ed his incurfions : by this accident therefore the peace 

 was immediately broken ; cruelties and ravages increafed 

 more than before, and death and deflru(5tion once more 

 raged throughout the colony. 



In 1751^ this fettlement was in the utmoffc diftrefs and 

 confufion; when, in compliance with a requeft of the inha- 

 bitants, prefented to the States General, Baron Spoke was 

 fent to Surinam,, with fix hundred frefh troops drafted 

 from the different regiments in the Dutch fervice, and 

 on their arrival the members of the court were ordered to 

 fend Governor Mauricius to Europe, to account for his 

 proceedings; who never returned to the colony, having in 

 1753 alked and obtained his difmiffion, after having been, 

 honourably acquitted. Baron Spoke, who during the ab- 

 fence of Mauricius was appointed to officiate as governor^ 

 found every, thing in the greateil diforder, difunion hav- 

 ing even arifen between the inhabitants and their rulers. 



