NARRATIVE . 



OF AN 



EXPEDITION TO SURINAM, 



CHAP. XVL 



A Reinforcement of frejh droops arrives from Holland— -En-^ 

 campment on Mount Magdenberg, in ^empatee Creek— 

 Remarkable Infiance of Lunacy in a Negro — Mountains 

 '—Beautiful Views — The Sick fent to Europe, 



INO W once more refarn to the principal object of my CHAP, 

 y VT 

 Journal, viz, Fourgeoud's military operations. I have v.,.^.v-^' 



before mentioned, that a fiapply of frelh troops was ex- 

 pected to reinforce our decayed little army ; and, on the 

 30th of January, 1775, the news came to Paramaribo that 

 the tranfport fhip Maaftroom, Captain Eeg, was arrived 

 in the river Surinam, and come to an anchor before the 

 fortrefs Amfterdam, with Colonel Seyburgh and two divi- 

 lions, confifting together of one hundred and twenty men^ 

 under his command, two more divifions being expected. 



The following day I went down with a row-boat to 

 w<5lcome them ; and having dined on board together, the 



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