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me on the beach, to my utter furprize and mortification. CHAP. 



XVI. 



I knew Fourgeoud had fwore that he fhould " dance juft . ' . 

 <« as much to his pipes as the yonngeft enfign in the re- 

 " giment;" and in that he was perfectly right: I there- 

 fore ftrenuoufly fupported the chief againft his antago- 

 nift, and fetting off immediately with another boat, foon. 

 overtook him, to his aftonifhment, when we all went 

 afhore at the plantation VolTenburgh, in the river Come- 

 wina. The next day we came to the eflate Arentruft^ 

 having palTed the heavy barges that departed from Para- 

 maribo on the 5th ; and on the loth we made the Hope^ 

 where having fpent fo many months, I here prefent the 

 reader with a view of that eftate, and of the eftate Cla- 

 renbeek, where ftill our hofpital was kept. This day Co- 

 lonel Fourgeoud alfo came up the river, and flept at 

 Wajampibo. 



On the nth, we arrived at the plantation Crawaffibo, 

 where we palfed the night. Here the overfeer, a Mr. 

 De Bruyn, was fo very impertinent, that, as I already had 

 no abundance of affe(5tion for the fraternity of overfeers, 

 I gave him fuch a found beating that, with a bloody 

 face, he fuddenly decamped from the eftate in a fmall 

 canoe with one negro, and in this trim, at twelve 

 o*clock at night, like Banquo the ghoft, appeared before 

 the amazed Fourgeoud ; who tiiought proper to give 

 him no other confolation than to difmifs him with a 

 hearty curfe. 



On the 1 2th we arrived fafe at Magdenberg, viz> 

 3 Fourgeoud^, 



