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knowledgment of which we will all chearfully fhed chap. 



our blood for the prefer vation and profperity of oar . 

 " mafter, our miftrefs, and the colony." 



To this humble and pathetic remonftrance the anfwer 

 was, that they were all liars, and fliould, as fuch, be 

 flogged round the ftreets of Paramaribo; and this moil ini« 

 quitous fentence was executed with the greateft feverity. 



Such is the confequence of the law of the colony, that 

 the teftimony of a negro is never to be taken. Had any 

 one white perfon been prefent at the above carnage, the 

 evidence would have been good, but even then this 

 fury would have efcaped by paying a fine of fifty 

 pounds for each murder. — But enough — my foul finks 

 within me while I dwell fo long upon the fubjedl. 



On the ad of May, being again perfectly recovered, I 

 took leave of Joanna and her Johnny, for thus he was 

 named after myfelf, though the ceremony of baptifin 

 could not yet be performed ; they now continued at 

 my friend De la Mare's houfe, whilft I fet out once more 

 for Magdenberg in a tent-boat with fix oars. 



On the 3d, I called at Egmond, on my French friend 

 Monfieur Cachelieu, and next day ftopt at Oranjebo or 

 Ornamibo, where I was heartily entertained by my old 

 adverfary Captain Meyland, with whom I had fought 

 at the Wana Greek. But now this gentleman declared, 

 that he loved me better than any man in the colony. 

 He was juft returned from a twelve days cruize through 

 the woods. 



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