EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



nedy, who was preparing to vilit Holland, requefling that 

 my boy Quaco might be returned to his eftate. I ac- 

 cordingly lent him down with a letter, offering to buy 

 him of hia mailer as foon as it fhould be in my power 

 to pay him. 



On tne 2d of April, Colonel Fourgeoud ordered all the 

 lick remaining in the colony to Magdenberg, where he 

 had ere6led an hofpital and a large victualling magazine. 

 Thus all the invaLds from Clarenbeck arrived here, with 

 furgeons, apothecaries, attendants, &c. : and here, in fait, 

 as I faid, the air was more healthy. At this period the 

 old gentleman was particularly ill-natured, and abufed. 

 both friend and foe without diftinition ; fwearing, that 

 not a foul fhould be exempt from duty, provided they 

 could but ftand on their legs. About this time a flrong 

 detachment was fent to the eftate Bruyinfburgh in Co- 

 mewina, where an infurredtion was expelled, the Haves 

 refuling to work upon a Sunday; to which, however^ 

 they were driven by the lafli of the whip. 



It was now in the midft of the rainy feafon, that 

 Fourgeoud declared his intention of fcouring the woods;: 

 and, in confequence, gave orders for two ftrong columns 

 to march the next day. The reafon for chufing this 

 feafon was, that if he could now diflodge the rebels they 

 muft ftarve for want, which w^ould not be the cafe in the 

 dry months, for then the foreft abounds with fruits and 

 roots of many kinds. This was, however, in my opinion, 

 a falfe piece of generalfhip; if it be conlidered on the 



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