EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



veren, which was guarded by the troops of the Society. C 

 Here I ftepped on fhore, with my officers, to wait on 

 Captain Orzinga, the commander, and deUvered three 

 of my fick men into his hofpital ; where I beheld fuch a 

 Ipedlacle of mifery and wretchednefs as baffles all imagi- 

 nation : this place having been formerly called DeviPs 

 Harwar, on account of its intolerable unhealthinefs — a 

 name by which alone I fhall again diftinguifh it, as much 

 more fuitable than that of Slans Welveren, which fignifies 

 the welfare of the nation. 



Here I faw a few of the wounded wretches, who had 

 efcaped from the engagement in which Lieutenant Lep- 

 per, with fo many men, had been killed ; and one of them 

 told me the particulars of his own miraculous efcape : — 

 " I was fhot. Sir," faid he, " with a mufquet-buliet in 

 my breaft; and to refift or efcape being impoffible, as 

 ' the only means left me to fave my life I threw myfelf 

 down among the mortally wounded, and the dead, 

 " without moving hand or foot. Here in the evening 

 the rebel chief, furveying his conqueft, ordered one of 

 his captains to begin inftantly to cut off the heads of 

 the flain, in order to carry them home to their village, 

 as trophies of their vidtory : this captain, having al- 

 " ready chopped off that of Lieutenant Lepper, and one 

 or two more, faid to his friend. Sonde go Jleeby^ cab a 

 mekewe liby den tara dogo tay taniara\ The fun isjult 

 " going to fleep, we muffc leave thofe other dogs till to- 

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