EXPEDITION TO SURINi 



" Atrldes *midft: his triumph mourn'd, 

 " And for a ravifh'd virgin burn'd i 

 " What time the fierce barbarian bands 

 " Fell by Pelides' conquering hands, 

 " And Troy (her Hcdor fwept away) 

 " Became to Greece an eafier prey, 



" Who knows, when Phillis is your bride, 

 " To what high rank you'll be allied ? 



Her parents dear, of gentle race, 

 " Shall not their fon-in-law difgrace. 



She fprung from kings, or nothing lefs, 

 " And weeps the family's diftrefs." 



On the 6th of March I returned to the Hope, loaded 

 with fowls, aubergines, brocoli, agoma, and a few Su- 

 rinam cherries. The aubergines are a fpecies of fruit 

 which grows in the fhape of a cucumber; they are of 

 a purple colour without, and white within ; they are cut 

 in flices and eaten like fallad, fometimes ilewed ; they 

 are very good and wholefome. The leaves of the tree 

 which bears this fruit are large and green, covered with 

 a purple-coloured down. The agoma is a bitteriili ve- 

 getable : the brocoli as in Europe, but fcarce. The cher- 

 ries are ribbed, , very four, and unlefs very ripe fit only 

 for preferving. 



On the prince of Orange's anniverfary, the 8th of 

 March, I invited fome company to drink his health, 



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