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CHAP, friend Caclielieu for rhy companion and voucher, who gave 

 iT^^e the ufe of his tilt-barge with eight oars for the purnofe. 



On our arrival I expelled to fee Foureeoud rap-in 

 with refentmenty that he would put me under an arreft, 

 and aik an explanation of our laft correfpondence. But 

 I dreaded not the worfi: that he could do, after the many 

 trials to ruin me which he had already put in execution, 

 and death itfelf was almoft preferable to his cruelty. 



Monfieur de Cachelieu and I, however, were both dif- 

 appointed. He not only took us politely by the hand, 

 but folicited us to dine with him, as if nothing had hap- 

 pened. But this afFe6lation I defpifed, and refufed to ac- 

 cept of his invitation with contempt, in which I was 

 followed by the French planter. When, in my turn, I 

 enqu'red for the caufe of his refufing my requeft, and 

 fending me fo ftrange a letter, this was the anfwer— 

 That thirty or forty of the Ouca negroes, who were 

 our allies by treaty, had deceived him, in doing nothing 

 while they had been in the woods, and during the time 

 he had been at Paramaribo : that he was in confequence 

 determined to pufli on the war with doable vigour ; 

 on which account he had not only forbidden me to go 

 to town, but had fince ordered even all the fick officers 

 to come up and to follow the enemy, while they had 

 llrength or breath remaining, not fo much as leaving 

 one at Paramaribo to guard the colours and the re- 

 giment's cheil, which had both been left to the care of 

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