EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



the gloom which the infernal furnace had left upon my 

 mind. 



Of the coffee ellates, that of Mr. Sims, called Limefliope, 

 was the moll magnificent, and may he deemed with juftice 

 one of the richeft in the colony. We now once more, on 

 the fixth of April, returned fafe to Paramaribo, where w^e 

 found the Wefterlingwerf man of war, Captain Crafs, 

 which had arrived from Plymouth in thirty-feven days, 

 into which port he had put to flop a leak, having parted 

 company with us, as already mentioned, ofFPortland, in the 

 end of December 1772. This day, dining at the houfe of 

 my friend, Mr. Lolkens, to whom I had been, as I have 

 faid, recommended by letters, I was an eye witnefs of the 

 unpardonable contempt with which negro flaves are treat- 

 ed in this colony. His fon, a boy not more than ten 

 years old, when fitting at table, gave a flap in the face to 

 a grey-headed black woman, who by accident touched 

 his powdered hair, as flie was ferving in a difli of kerry. 

 I could not help blaming his father for overlooking the 

 adion ; who told me, with a fmile, that the child fliould 

 no longer ofiend me, as he was next day to fail for Holland 

 for education ; to which I anfwered, that I thought it 

 almoft too late. At the fame moment a failor pafling b}", 

 broke the head of a negro with a bludgeon, for not hav- 

 ing faluted him v/ith his hat.— Such is the ft ate of fla- 

 very, at leaft in this Dutch fettlement ! 



About this time, Colonel Fourgeoud made a fecond ex- 

 curfion, and now departed with a barge, to explore the 



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