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CHAP, armed negroes, and dogs fet in to difperfe them, they are 

 Xlir. frequently iliot. From what I have faid upon this fub- 

 je6l alone, the reader may form an idea of the riches 

 with which this country abounds ; which, neverthelefs,. 

 did not feem to ftimulate its enemies during the late war 

 to attempt the poffeffion of it : but I muft fay, I doubt 

 whether Surinam, in the hands of any other nation than 

 the Dutch, would not ceafe to be of its prefent confe- 

 quence, the Hollanders being indifputably the moft pa- 

 tient, perfevering, induftrious people that inhabit the 

 globe. 



Notwithftanding, however, the immenfe wealth that 

 the Weft Indies in general afford, it will ever be my opi- 

 nion that the Europeans might live as comfortably, if not . 

 more healthily, without them ; the want of fugar, coffee, 

 cotton, cacao, indigo, rum, and Brazil wood, might be 

 amply fupplied by honey, milk, wool, Geneva, ale, Eng-- 

 lifh herbs, Britifli oak, &c. 



And now once more to refume my narrative : — I have- 

 already mentioned that my Haves were employed in pre- 

 paring an houfe for the reception of my beft friend, which 

 was about fix days in completing. It confifted of a par->- 

 lour, which alfo ferved for a dining-room ; a bed-chamber,^ 

 where I alfo flowed my baggage; a piazza or fhed to fit 

 under before the door ; a fmall kitchen detached from 

 the houfe, and a poultry-houfe, the whole fituated on a 

 fpot by itfelf, commanding an enchanting profpe61: on 

 every fide, and furrounded with paling to keep off the 



cattle. 



