EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



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Thefe articles were as follow : 

 2 bacon hams, 31 lbs. at jc^d. per lb. 



C FI A P. 

 XVII. 



I fmali cag of butter, lolbs. at is^iod. per lb. 

 I fmall ditto of flour, loolbs. at 4^/. per lb. 



1 Butch cheefe, 11 lbs. at lod. per lb. 



2 quart bottles of vinegar, at is. lod. per quarts 

 4 lbs. fpermaceti candles, at 3/. Sd. per lb. 



2 lbs. dried faufages, at 2S. gd. per lb. 

 The prices of wine and fpirits I have already mentioned ,^ 

 in the twelfth chapter. 



He alfo brought me a goat with its kid to fupply me- 

 tvith milk, for which I paid twenty florins, or near two 

 pounds fterling : thefe prices are at leaft double, and fome 

 treble, to what they ufed to be in England. 



Goats are very common in all Guiana; they are not 

 large, but very beautiful creatures, with fmall horns, and 

 ■very fliort fmooth hair, moftly of a dun-colour; they are 

 as nimble as Itags, and are kept on all the eltates, where 

 they breed faft and give much milk ; they are alfo deli- 

 cious eating when killed young. 



I had now the difagreeable news, that all my letters for 

 Europe were funk on board Captain Vifler, who was 

 wrecked in the Texel roads among the ice. I was 

 alfo lincerely grieved to hear that my good friend Mr»- 

 Kennedy, with his lady and family, had taken their final 

 farewel of the colony, and failed for Holland. This 

 gentleman, Mr. Gordon, and a Mr. Gourluy, were the 

 only Scotch ; a Mr. Buckland, a Mr. Townfend, and Mr,. 



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