EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



This evening my fentinel being infulted by a row- 

 boat, which damned him, and fpoke of the whole crew 

 in the moft opprobrious terms, I immediately manned 

 the canoe, and gave chace ; but by the help of hoifting 

 a fmall fail, and the intervention of a dark night, the 

 rogue, who kept courfe towards Baram's Point, had the 

 good fortune to efcape my refentment. 



On the fourth of July, in the morning, we weighed 

 anchor ; and having doubled the Cape, rowed with the 

 flood till we arrived before Elizabeth's Hope, a beautiful 

 coffee plantation, where the proprietor, Mr. Klynhams, 

 inviting us on Ihore, fhewed us every civility in his 

 power, and loaded my barge with refrefliing fruits, ve- 

 getables, &:c. He told us that he pitied our lituation 

 from his heart, and foretold the miferies we were going 

 to encounter, the rainy feafon being juft at hand, or in- 

 deed having already commenced, by frequent fliowers-, 

 accompanied with loud claps of thunder. " As for the 

 " enemy," faid he, " you may depend on not feeing one 

 " fingle foul of them ; they know better than to make 

 " their appearance openly, while they may have a chance 

 " of feeing you from under cover : thus. Sir, take care 

 " to be upon your guard — but the climate, the climate 



will murder you all. However," continued he, " this 



lliews the zeal of your commander, who Vv-ill rather 

 " fee you killed, than fee you eat the bread of idlenefs 



at Paramaribo." — This pleafant harangue he accompa- 

 nied with a fqueeze by the hand. We then took our 

 a leavcj 



