EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



Oil, varying his punifliment monthly, until the youth 

 became infcniible, walking crooked, and almoil de- 

 generated into a brute. This wretch was, however, 

 very proud of his handfomeft flaves, and for fear of dif- 

 figuring their Ikins, he has fometirr, cs let them off with 

 twenty lafhes, when, for their robberies and crimes, they 

 had deferved the gallows. Such is the ftate of public and 

 private juftice in Surinam. The wretch Ebber left the 

 Hope upon this occafion; and his humane fucceffor, a 

 Mr. Blenderman, commenced his reign by flogging every 

 Have belonging to the eftate, male and female, for hav- 

 ing over-flept their time in the morning about fifteen 

 minutes. 



The reader will, no doubt, imagine, that fuch cruel- 

 ties were unparalleled; but this is not the cafe, they were 

 even exceeded, and by a female too. 



A Mrs. S — Ik — r going to her eftate in a tent-barge, a 

 negro woman, with her fucking infant, happened to be 

 palTengers, and were feated on the bow or fore-part of 

 the boat. The child crying, from pain perhaps, or fome 

 other reafon, could not be hufhed ; Mrs. S — Ik — r, offended 

 with the cries of this innocent little creature, ordered the 

 mother to bring it aft, and deliver it into her hands ; 

 then, in the prefence of the diftra6led parent, fhe imme- 

 diately thruft it out at one of the tilt-windows, where 

 fhe held it under water until it was drowned, and then 

 let it go. The fond mother, in a ftate of defperation, 



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