NARRATIVE OF AN 



.CHAP, about the lize of a gold pippin, inclofes a reddifh pulp, 



full of fmall feeds ; the pulp is very fweet, and may be 

 eaten raw, or made into marmalade or jelly, and then it 

 is delicious. There are two fpecies of guava ; that which 

 is the fweeteft has the fmalleft quantity of feeds. 



On the 5th of February, the troops that were fo lately 

 landed were fent to the upper parts of the river Come- 

 wina to be encamped. I fpeak of the privates, for moft 

 of the officers remained to partake of a feaft at the houfe 

 of a Mr. Mercellus ; by whofe command (to crown the 

 banquet) half a dozen negroes continued blowing the 

 trumpet and French horn in the room where we dined, 

 till the company were abfolutely deafened by difcordancy 

 and noife. 



On the 6th, the whole corps, without exception, re- 

 ceived orders to leave Paramaribo, and to encamp at Mag- 

 denberg, a mountain near the Tempatee Creek, in the 

 upper parts of the river Comewina, to which, as I have 

 juft mentioned, the reinforcement was already difpatched. 

 Having, therefore, prepared myfelf to fet out on my 

 fourth campaign, and taken leave of my little family and 

 friends, I repaired to the water fide, to fet out in the fame 

 barge with Colonel Seyburgh, but who, erroneoufly fup- 

 pofing that the troops which came with him from Hol- 

 land were a diftincl corps from thofe arrived with Four- 

 geoud in 1773, made the negroes fhove off the boat in my 

 prefence, when I was not a ftone's call from it, and left 



me 



