EXP£DIfION TO SURINAM, 



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food; but this laft, which has the flavour of mufk, is CHAP, 

 accounted by far the mod delicate. For a more perfcdl 

 idea, however, than I am capable of giving by defcrip- 

 tion, I refer the curious to the annexed plate ; where A 

 is the plantain-tree with its fruit ; B the young flioots 

 that fucceed it ; C the fruit in its green tegument ; D the 

 fame, cut through the middle ; and E the fruit called ba- 

 nana, in full maturity. In Surinam the firfl: is known 

 by the name of banana, and the fecond goes by that of 

 hacooba, 



I now, obtaining my friend Medlar's concurrence, took 

 a trip on the iSth to Paramaribo; where I found my boy 

 bathing in Madeira wine and water while his mother 

 was happy, and perfedlly recovered. Having feen them 

 well, and prefented Joanna with a gold medal, that my 

 father had given my mother on the day of my birth, alfo 

 thanked Mrs. Lolkens for her very great kindnefs, I 

 immediately returned to the Hope, where I arrived on 

 the 22d. 



The poor negro whom I had fent before me with a 

 letter had been lefs fortunate than I was, having his 

 canoe overfet in the middle of the river Surinam, by the 

 roughnefs of the water. With great addrefs, however, 

 he kept himfelf in an ere6t pofture (for this man could 

 not fwim), and by the buoyancy and refiflance of the boat 



* This, however uncommon It maj amoiif^fi- which clafs was the hofpitablf 

 appear to an European, is often pra(?bfed Mi ?. Lolkens, who generoufly prelented 

 in Surinam by fuch a& can afford it; Joanna with the wine. 



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