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NARRATIVE OF AN 



CHAP. XV, 



CHAP. 

 XV. 

 V ' 



Defer iptio7i of the Indians^ Aborigines of Guiana — I'heir 



Paffio'ns — Religion — Marriages — Funerals^ &c. — Of the 

 Caribbee Indians in particular— I'heir Tirade with the 

 'Europeans. 



N the 1 8th of January 1774, ^ ^'^^ '^^'^^ farewell to 



^ the Hope, of which I am convinced the reader by 

 this time is as tired as I have been. Thence rowing down, 

 I flept at the eftate ArentUift, and next day dined at the 

 beautiful plantation Gatwyk. In this place I had nearly 

 ended all my travels ; for Mr. Goetzee, the owner, having 

 lent me one of bis horfes to ride round tlie eilate, the 

 animal and I both at once difappeared : a wooden bridge 

 over which we palTed being rotten, the part under us gave 

 way, and we dropped through into the canal. With much 

 exertion however (being alone) I got afliore, and having 

 run to call fame negroes, the horfe, which fluck in the 

 mud, was (though with great difficulty) extricated. 



In the evening I rowed to Paramaribo with the ebb 

 tide, which gave me an opportunity of feeing the man- 

 groves that line the banks of the river Surinam full of 

 oyfters, ftuck in the branches like fruit, from the water's 

 edge up to high-water mark. Thefe oyfters attaching 



Food — Arms — Ornamen ts — Ejnploymerits —Diverfions — 



themfelves 



