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NARRATIVE 



OF AN 



C FI A P. V. 



T^he Scene changes — Some Account of a beautiful Female 

 Slave — The Manner of travelling in Surinam — "The 

 Colonel explores the Situation of the Rivers — Barbarity 

 of a Planter — Wretched I'reatment of fome Sailors, 



CHAP. TTAVING in the firft chapters given fome account 

 , of our incorporation, our voyage, our landing, 



and our reception in the colony, in February 1773; ^•^^^ 

 having defcribed the colony of Surinam, its boundaries, 

 and revolutions, from its earlieft difcovery ; I fhall now 

 proceed in my narrative, by connecting the proceedings 

 of our little corps with the general chain of events ; 

 and write precifely what I have learned by local and 

 ocular obfervation. 



Having already ftated that from our arrival till 

 February 27th, we feemed to be landed in Guiana for 

 little more than idle diffipation ; I lhall now pro- 

 ceed from the fame date, which was about the com- 

 mencement of the rainy feafon, when our mirth and 

 conviviality ftill continued, to prefent to the reader, as 

 a contraft to the preceding fcenes of horror, a de- 

 fcription of the beautiful mulatto maid Joanna. This 

 charming young woman I firft faw at the houfe of a 

 Mr. Dtmelly, fecretary to the court of policy, where I 



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