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CHAP. 

 III. 



Eas'd of her load, fubjedion grows more light, 

 " And Poverty looks cheerful in thy fight j 

 ** Thou mak'ft the gloomy face of nature gay, 

 " Giv'ft beauty to the fun, and pleafure to the day.' 



The hoftages and chief officers of both the above^ 

 mentioned negro cohorts, on their arrival at Parama- 

 ribo, were entertained at the governor's own table^ 

 having previoufly paraded in itate through the town^ 

 accompanied by his excellency in his own private 

 carriage. 



By their capitulation with the Dutch, the above Ovlcs^ 

 and Seramica rebels muft yearly receive, as I have men- 

 tioned, a quantity of arms and ammunition from the- 

 colony, for which the Europeans have received in: 

 return the negroes' promifes of being their faithful 

 allies, to deliver up all their deferters, for which they 

 are to receive proper premiums, never to appear armed 

 at Paramaribo above five or fix at a time, and alfo ta 

 keep their fettlement at a proper diftance from the town 

 and plantations : the Seramica negroes at the river 

 Seramica, and thofe of the Ouca negroes at the Jocka- 

 creek, near the river Marawina, where one or twa 

 white men, called pofl-holders, were to refide among, 

 them^ in the quality of envoys. 



Both thefe tribes were fuppofed, at the period I fpeak 

 of, to amount in all to three thoufand, and but a few years 

 after, by thofe that were fent to vifit their fettlcments 

 (^including wives and children) they were computed to 

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