NARRATIVE OF AN 



C H A P. IX. 



Some Difeafes peculiar to the Climate — Group of Negroes 

 newly imported going to be fold — RefieBions on the Slave 

 'Trade — T^he Voyage from Africa — Manner of felling them 

 in the Colony — Defcription of a Cotton Plantation, 



SEPTEMBER 15th, I found myfeif in an ele- 

 gant and well-furniflied apartment, encouraged by 

 the hopes given by the phyfician, carefled by my friends, 

 and fupported by the care and attention of my incompa- 

 rable Mulatto. 



A Captain Brant having at this time the command in 

 Colonel Fourgeoud's abfence, he fent, the morning after 

 my arrival, my trunks and baggage, which had been 

 fealed up ; but on looking into them, I found I had ene- 

 mies at home as well as abroad ; fince moft of my Ihirts, 

 books, See. were gnawed to dull by the blatta or cock- 

 roach, called cakreluce in Surinam : nay, even my flioes 

 were deftroyed, of which I had brought with me 

 twelve pairs new from Europe, as they were extremely 

 dear and bad in this country. 



This infe6l, which is of the beetle kind, is here one 

 inch and fometimes two inches long, oval, flat, and of a 

 dark reddifh colour. By getting through the locks of 

 chefts or boxes, it not only depolits its eggs there, but 

 commits its ravages onlinen, cloth j filk, or any thing that 

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