EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



This is rather lefs than the former ; its tail, legs, and 

 bill, are formed in the fame manner, hut the latter is of 

 a dirty white ; the head, the neck, and breaft of this 

 bird are of a bright fcarlet, the fpace round the eyes 

 only excepted, where it is white, with black rings ; its 

 wings may be faid to be divided by bars into four colours, 

 being fcarlet at the top, next green, then yellow and 

 blue, down to the extremity of the tail, which in the fun 

 Ihines with a brilliancy and effedt unec2ualled by art. 

 The macaws fly in couples, and have a fhrill difagreeable 

 Ihriek, and bite feverely ; their bill being very hard and 

 fharp, which is of great ufe to them in climbing : they 

 are ealily tamed, and may be taught to fpeak like other 

 parrots. The Indians frequently bring them to Para- 

 maribo, where they part with them for a bottle of rum, 

 or for a few fifh-hooks. 



This evening arrived fick, from the head-quarters at 

 the eftate Crawafibo in Comewina, Colonel Texier, the 

 commanding officer of the Society troops. This gentle- 

 man had intended to have marched conjundlly with 

 Colonel Fourgeoud through the woods, in queft of the 

 rebels ; but his conftitution, already weak, not being 

 able to fupport the regimen of th€ commander in chief, 

 and to Hve only on fait provilions, had begun to flag 

 from the beginning, till he was fent home to Paramaribo 

 in this drooping condition. 



On the fixth of oaober the fever had left me, and th6 

 ring-worms began to abate; but the mifery an<l hard- 



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