EXPEDITION TO SURINAM, 



CHAP. xni. 



A Sugar Plantation defcribed — Dome/lie Happinefs in a 

 Cottage— Further Account of Fourgeoud's Operations-^ 

 Dreadful Cruelties infliSled by fome Overfeers — Inflame 

 of Refentment in a Rebel Negro Captain. 



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HAVE already faid that I was happy at the Hope; cHAP. 

 but how was my felicity augmented, when Mr. and 



Mrs. Lolkens came to vifit me one evening, and not only 

 gave me the addrefs of Meffrs. Paflalage and Son at Am- 

 fterdam, the new proprietors of my Mulatto, but even 

 defired me to take her to the Hope, where fhe would be 

 more agreeably fituated than either at Fauconberg or 

 Paramaribo. This defire was unqueftionably moft rea- 

 dily complied with by me ; and I immediately fet my 

 flaves to work, to build a houfe of manicole-trees for her 

 reception. 



In the mean time I wrote the following letter to Meffrs. 

 Paffalage and Son. 



" Gentlemen, 



" BEING informed by Mr. Lolkens, the adminiflrator 

 of the eftate Fauconberg, that you are the prefent pro- 

 " prietors ; and being under great obligations to one of 

 " your Mulatto flaves named Joanna, who is the daugh- 

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