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his mafter, Mr. Walter Kennedy, having, to my great joy, 

 fold him to me for the fum of five hundred Dutch florins, 

 amounting with the expences to near fifty pounds, for 

 ^Yhich Colonel Fourgeoud very civilly gave me a bill on 

 his agent. The payment of this faithful fervant's ran- 

 fom, of courfe revived my impatience for the long- 

 .wilhed moment of emancipation of my poor Joanna 

 and her boy; from whofe new mafl:er I had not yet 

 received any anfwer. 



While we continued here, a negro brought me a 

 beautiful butterfly, which I copied with all the correcSl- 

 nefs I was mafter of; and which I faw fince in Ma- 

 dam Merian's colledtion, where it is coloured very ill. 

 This fly was a dark blue tinged with green, and va- 

 riegated with fpots like a peacock's feather, and on each 

 wing it had a fpot of pale yellow ; the under part of 

 the wings were a charming crimfon and purple; the 

 body a pale red. — The caterpillar is green and yellow; 

 it is crowned with eight horns on the head, and has two 

 ,on the tail. About the fame time Captain Fredericy re- 

 turned alfo from traverfing the woods. He had a cor- 

 poral drovv^ned by flipping off a tree in crofiing over a 

 creek ; which accident frequently happened, but the 

 men were generally picked up, except this poor fellow, 

 who funk to the bottom inftantly with all his accou- 

 trements. 



Another negro alfo brought me a regale of groe-groe^ 

 or cabbage-tree worms, as they are called in Surinam. 

 § , This 



