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called Caffivinica : the Bottle Greek communicating with chap, 



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the Gomewina and Pirica, as the Wana Greek does with ^ 

 Cormoetibo and Rio-Goraewina. 



Here the troops were lodged in temporary houfes built 

 with the manicole-tree ; but the lituation v/as fo low 

 and marfliy as at fpring-tides to be entirely under water* 

 The officers were all crowded in one apartment of the 

 fame conftrudtion ; while the planter's fine houfe, which ■ 

 might have been ferviceable for the pleafure and health 

 of thefe gentlemen, was made ufe of by nobody but the 

 overfeer of the eftate. 



About a cannon-lhot higher up the river is the eftate 

 Clarenbeek ; where 1 went, on the 226, to examine the 

 flate of the hofpit?d, and where I found the troops more 

 difagreeably quartered than at the Hope, owing chiefly 

 to the amazing number of rats v/ith which this place 

 was infefted, deftroying the men's clothes and provifions, 

 and running over their faces by dozens as they lay in 

 their hammocks. The only mode of remedying this 

 horrid inconvenience, was to break holes in the bottoms 

 of quart bottles, and then Rung them like beads upon 

 the lafhings of each hammock, both at head and foot : 

 when this was properly done, their 23olin.i rendered it 

 impofGble for the rats to reach the canvas. 



Here the crowded hofpital afforded a melancholy fpec», 

 tacle, by the miferable obje6ts it prefented. Humanity 

 fufFers fo much from fuch fcenes, that I felt myfelf happy ^ 

 upon my return to the Hope. My orders here were 



much 



