ILXPEDITION TO SURINA U. 



To give the reader a more lively idea of thefe people, t 

 ihall defcribe the figure and drefs of a Quaderoon girl, as 

 they ufually appear in this colony. They are mottly tail, 

 ftraight, and gracefully formed; rather more llender than 

 the Mulattoes, and never go naked above the waift, like 

 the former. Their drefs commonly confiils of a fattin 

 petticoat, covered with flowered gauze ; a clofe fliort 

 jacket, made of beft India chintz or filk, laced before, 

 and fliewing about an hand-breadth of a fine muflin 

 fhift between the jacket and the petticoat. As for ftock- 

 ings and flioes, the Haves in this country never wear 

 them. Their heads are adorned with a fine bunch of 

 black hair in fliort natural ringlets ; they wear a black 

 or white beaver hat, with a feather, or a gold loop and 

 button : their neck, arms, and ancles are ornamented 

 •with chains, bracelets, gold medals, and beads. Ail thefe 

 fine women have European hufbands, to the no fmall 

 mortification of the fair Greolians ; yet fiiould it be 

 known that an European female had an intercourfe with 

 a fiave of any denomination, fhe is for ever detefted, and 

 the flave lofes his life without mercy. — Such are the 

 defpotic laws of men in Dutch Guiana over the weaker 

 fex. 



But to change the fubjedl.— The tyranny of our com- 

 mander, Colonel Fourgeoud, feemed daily to increafe. 

 Lieutenant Count Runtwick, who was to proceed for 

 Holland with Colonel Wefterloo, being fick, was ordered 

 '■0 remain in Surinam, for having only faid that he had 



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