EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



often feen in the upper parts of the river Surinam. On 

 this mountain we alfo found the air cooler and more pure, 

 and of courfe more healthy than in any other part of the 

 colony. 



On the 17th the news reached us, that the tranfport 

 fhip, the Maria Helena, with the remaining two divifions 

 of one hundred and twenty men, commanded by Captain 

 Hamel, had alfo arrived in the river Surinam on the 14th 

 inftant. Thus the reinforcements together confifted of 

 two hundred and forty men, and, on the 5th day of 

 March, they all arrived in heavy barges at Magdenberg, 

 where I may now fay that Colonel Fonrgeoud's whole 

 forces were affembled. The fame day one hundred negro 

 flaves alfo arrived, to carry the loads when we fliould 

 march. One of the new negroes being miffed from on 

 board a military barge, and marks of blood difcovered 

 in it, the commanding officer, a Mr. Chatteauview, and 

 a fentinel, were both put under an arreft to be tried for 

 murder. On the fame eventful day alfo, two of our cap- 

 tains fought a duel, in which one of them received 

 wound in his forehead. 



On the 13th, a barge with provifions, coming from Pa- 

 ramaribo (fhocking to relate !) found the negro that was 

 miffed on the 5th at the water's edge, lying in the brufli- 

 wood, with his throat cut from ear to ear, but ftill alive, 

 the knife having miffed the wind-pipe. This miferable 

 apparition of fi^in and bone they took on board, and 

 2 brought 



