EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



having rowed all night, I breakfafled with Captain 

 Macneyl, who was one of General Spork's captains in 

 175 1 ; after which we once more fet out, and arrived at 

 the plantation Charlottenburgh, where I delivered Mr. 

 Kennedy's letter to Mr. Reeder, who promifed next morn- 

 ing to aflift me. So much incenfed was I at the ufage I 

 had met with at Paramaribo, and fo well pleafed with the 

 Englifh failors, that I ordered the tars a dinner of twelve 

 roafted ducks, and gave them thirty-fix bottles of claret, 

 being my whole ftock, befides a guinea. When the tide 

 ebbed they took their leave, and rowed down to their 

 veffels, as well pleafed, and as drunk as wine or ftrong 

 fpirits could make them. 



I now purfued my voyage upwards as far as the eftate 

 Mondefir; afterwards, having viewed the ruins of the 

 three eftates, Zuzingheyd, Peru, and L'Efperance, which 

 had betn burnt when I commanded at Devil's Harwar, 

 I arrived at Lepair. Here one of the overfeers gave me 

 an account of his miraculous efcape from the rebels, 

 which I fhall relate in his own words. — " The rebels, 

 Sir," faid he, " had already furrounded the dwelling- 

 houfe in which I was, before I knew of their being in 

 the plantation, and were employed in fetting fire to the 

 four corners of it, fo that to run out of doors was ruih- 

 ing on certain death. In this dilemma I fled to the 

 garret, where I laid myfelf flat upon one of the beams, 

 in hopes of their difperiing foon, and that I might effedt 



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