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had happened, immediately flipped their cable, and fet 

 fail for th€ iiland of Cayenne, where this piracy was put 

 to an end ; for the French feizing fliip and crew, deli- 

 vered both to the colony of Surinam, where, in 1764, 

 feven of the mod guilty were executed on board the fame 

 veffel which they had captured, then at anchor in the 

 roads before the town of Paramaribo. One of thefe un- 

 happy wretches was decapitated, and fix hanged to the 

 yard-arm, whofe heads were alfo chopped off and plant- 

 ed upon iron fpikes on the beach, in a cage made for the 

 purpofe. The others, who had been taken by the Por- 

 tuguefe, were fent from the Brazils to Amfterdam, after 

 which they were alfo executed in Texel roads on board 

 the Weftelingwerf man of war, which fliip was that 

 fent out with us from Holland : their bodies were after- 

 wards gibbeted in iron harnefs, and placed for an example 

 along the coaft. 



This fame year alfo, three of the fociety or colony 

 foldiers, who had been guilty of mutiny and defertion, 

 were executed in Surinam ; but as their cafe is the moft 

 peculiar of its kind that ever happened, I mull alfo beg 

 leave to give fome account of the tranfa(5lion. 



During the time of an infurreftion, which happened 

 in the year 1761 among the negro flaves in the colony 

 of Berbice, where they had not been treated fo cruelly 

 as in other colonies, not only a regiment of marines, 

 commanded by Colonel de Salfe, which now belongs to 

 General Douglas, was fent over from Holland to that 



fettlement, 



