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teat-boat and fix oars, rowed ftrait down for Paramaribo, CHAP. 



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ftill in good health and in a flow of fpirits, and at the ^^^^^^J^ 

 very fammit of contentment. 



At Devil's Harwar I met a cargo of tea, coffee, bifciiit, 

 butter, fugar, lemons, rum, and twenty bottles of claret, 

 fent me by my friends, directed to La Rochelle, which I 

 again, notwithftanding the barbarous ufage that I had fo 

 lately met with, gave all in a prefent to poor Fourgeoud, 

 twelve bottles of wine excepted, which we drank in the 

 barge to the healths of our wives and miftreffes ; nor 

 could I help pitying Colonel Fourgeoud, whofe age (he 

 being about fixty) and indefatigable exertions claimed the 

 attention of the mofl indifferent : for during this trip^ 

 though but few rebels were taken, he had certainly fcour- 

 ed the forefl from the river ComewJna to the mouth of 

 the Wana Creek, difperfed the enemy, and demolillied 

 their habitations, fields, and gardens, and thus cut them 

 off from all profpe6l of fupport. 



On the evening of the 13th, we fupped at the eflate 

 Mondefire, and thence kept rowing down all night and 

 day, lliouting and finging till the 15th at noon, when, the 

 tide ferving, we went on fhore at the fortrefs Amfter- 

 dam ; whence croffing the river, we arrived before Mr. 

 De Lamar's door at Paramaribo. I flept afhore among 

 a croud of friends, who all flocked round to fee and to 

 welcome me to town. 



I next fent for my ineflimable Joanna, who burft 



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