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Colonel Fourgeoud at Paramaribo— 'Example of Ignorance 

 771 a Surgeon — Of Virtue in a Slave — Of Ferocity in a 

 Commander — I'be 'Troops re-enter the Woods — Account 



CHAP. TTAVING delayed his departure to the 29th of 



April, Colonel Fourgeoud now finally rowed down 

 for Paramaribo, accompanied by a few of his officers, to 

 refrefli themfelves; of which, in truth, they had great 

 n4;ed, while an armed barge kept floating up and down 

 the river, and while the remaining emaciated troops 

 (which were melted down to a very fmall number, and 

 unfit, till recruited in their conflitutions, for any further 

 military fervice) greatly required ifome rell. Juft before 

 the chief's departure, he fent me (who now commanded 

 the river) the following very curious infl:ru6lions, which, 

 as a proof of his generalQiip,^ I cannot help inferting: 

 Amongft others, " to afk the planters if the rebels were 

 come to their eftates, in which cafe to attack and drive 

 " them away; but nc>t to follow them, unlefs 1 was fure 

 that I certainly fliouid conquer them, and for any mif^ 

 " carriage I flioiild be called to an account;" which is, in 

 plain Englifh, that " if 1 attacked the enemy without 



of Loango Dancing — Uncommon Proof of Fidelity in a 

 Negro. 



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