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NARRATIVE. OF AN 



CHAP, then upon the eve of breaking out into open violence, 

 ^' , nothing could furpafs the warm and cordial friendfhip 

 which thefe gentlemen poffeffed, not only for me, but 

 for every individual that bore a Britifli name, or had 

 any connexion with that ifland ; profeffing, that they 

 Hill retained the greateft regard for every thing in Bri- 

 tain, but its adminiftration. I accepted of their very 

 polite propofal; after which, having received a letter 

 from Mr. Kennedy, to be delivered to one of the militia 

 captains, a Mr. N. Reeder, in the river Comewina, with 

 orders to fend me farther up in a proper tent-boat ; and 

 having arranged matters in fuch a manner at home, that 

 neither Colonel Fourgeoud nor the cock-roaches could 

 injure me, I Ihook hands with my Mulatta, and at fix in 

 the evening repaii:ed once more to the water-fide, ef- 

 corted by my Englifh and American friends, where, hav- 

 ing drank a bowl of punch, we feparated. I then departed 

 for my ftation, they having hoifted the colours on board 

 all their veffels in the road, and at the boat's going off 

 fainted me with three cheers, to my great fatisfadtion, and 

 the mortification of the gaping multitude by which we 

 were furrounded. We foon rowed beyond the view of 

 Paramaribo. 



Being arrived at the fortrefs of New Amfterdam, we 

 were obliged to flop for the return of the tide, to row up 

 the river Comewina. In this interval, I was genteeUy 

 entertained with a fupper by the Society officers quar- 

 tered there ; but at twelve o'clock we got aboard, and 

 8 having 



