EXPEDITION TO SURINAM, 



be not lefs than fifteen or twenty thoufancl. They are C 

 already become overbearing and even infolent, brandilh- ^ 

 ing their filver-headed canes in defiance of the inha- 

 bitants, and forcing from them liquors, and very often 

 money, and reminding them how cruelly their anceftors 

 had murdered their parents and their hufbands. 



From thefe circumftances, and their numbers increaf- 

 ing from day to day, I muft conclude, that fhould the 

 peace be ever broken, thefe new allies will become the 

 mofl dreadful foes that ever the colony of Surinam can 

 have to contend with. 



In 1763 the town of Paramaribo would have been 

 burnt down to the ground, had it not been prevented 

 by the courage and intrepidity of the failors, who, at 

 the hazard of their lives, without other afliftance, pre- 

 vented a general conflagration. 



About this time a mutiny broke out on board the 

 outward-bound Eaft Indiaman, Neimburgh^ commanded 

 by Captain KetelL The crew, confifting chiefly of 

 F^rench and German deferters, who had been kidnapped 

 in Holland, rofe in arms againfl their fuperiors, and 

 having murdered moft of the oflicers and warrant 

 officers, while others were put in chains, carried the 

 veflel to the Brazils, there the ringleaders went on 

 fhore, and being engaged in riot and difputation foon 

 difcovered what they were to the Portuguefe governor, 

 in confequence of which they were all taken into cuf- 

 tody; but their accomplices on board fufpeding what 



