r " ^ N A R R A T I T E d F A K . ; : 



^HAP. " ter of the late Mr. KruythofF,. particularly for having 

 ^"^* attended me during licknefs ; I in gratitude requeft of 

 you, who are her matters, to let me purchafe her liberty 

 " without delay : which favour fliall be ever thankfully 

 acknowledged, and the money for her ranfom imme- 

 ^'-diately paid, by 



Gentlemen, 



Your moft obedient fervant, 



« John Gabriel Stedman, 



" Captain in Colonel Fourgcoud's 

 Corps of Marines." 



This letter was accompanied by another from my 

 friend Lolkens, who much cheared my profpedts by the 

 affurance of fuccefs. 



Having difpatched thefe letters to Holland, I had now 

 the opportunity of obferving the whole procefs of a fu- 

 gar-plantation ; of which I fliall endeavour to give an ac- 

 curate defcription. 



The buildings ufually confift of an elegant dwelling- 

 houfe for the planter, outhoufes for the overfeer and 

 book-keeper, befides a carpenter's lodge, kitchens, ftore- 

 houfes, and ilables, if the fugar-mills be wrought by 

 horfes or miiles ; but on the Hope thefe are not requi- 

 lite, as the wheels move hy water, ftored in canals during 

 the fpring-tide by means of fluices, which being open- 

 ed at low water pour out like a deluge, and fet the ma- 

 chinery in motion. A fugar-mill is built at the «xpence 

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