EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



Guiana, if not in the world, being not much larger than 

 a Norway rat. 



This is a beautiful little animal, with blackifh grey 

 frizzled hair, a white face, and very bright fliining eyes; 

 its ears are large and naked, yet they are not very per- 

 ceptible, being covered by the very long and white 

 whilkers that grow round the whole vifage of this 

 little creature : its feet are not unlike thofe of a fquir- 

 rel, and its tail is bufliy and annulated. So very delicate 

 is the faccav/inkee, and fo fenfible of the cold,. that fcarcely 

 one of them is brought to Europe alive, and if they are 

 they very foon pine and die. The Dutch call them the 

 Jhagarintee^ from their being chagrined at the fmalleft 

 trifle; In the annexed plate, 1 have delineated both thofe 

 monkies, the large quato, and the fmall faccawinkee, thus 

 endeavouring to corre.61 with my pencil the. deficiency of 

 rny pen^. 



On my return to the Magdenberg, I narrowly efcaped 

 being cruflied to death by an enormous tree, which 

 dropped by age juft at my feet. Thefe accidents fre* 

 quently happen in the foreft ; this, however, only 

 flightly v/ounded two or three of our marines. During 

 this trip we had much rain, and were obliged to crofs 

 over a fmall creek. We cut down one of the palm-trees 

 on the water's^ edge, v/hich falhng acrofs the river formed 

 a temporary bridge. 



I now paid a vifit to the miferable negro who had been 

 found with his throat cut, and who was fo well as to 



