EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



cfered down Captain Brant to take the command, with a 

 frefli fupply of men, and orders to fend, not to town but 

 to Maj^denbero- all the invalids be fhould relieve. Thefe 

 orders he p-ave to the above officer in fach a brutal man- 



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ner, and difpatched him fo fuddenly, that he had not even 

 time to pack up his cloaths; while Colonel Seyburg de- 

 prived him of his only fervant, whom he took for him- 

 felf. This ufage fo much afFe6led Captain Brantj that 

 he bur ft into tears, and declared he did not wifh longer 

 to furvive fuch galling treatment : he then departed to 

 the Hope, truly with a broken heart. 



Upon his arrival he vfas informed that Captain Brough? 

 the late commanding officer, was dead. This poor man 

 had been on hard fervice in the woods, and being very 

 corpulent, could no longer fupport the fatigues and ex- 

 ceffive heat; he melted down very faft, and a putrid fever 

 at laft occafioned his diffolution. Captain Brant was foon 

 followed by Colonel Seyburg to the Hope, with orders to 

 infped the fick.— In this interval of inaaion, I lhall de- 

 fcribe two filhes, which, though very different in fize and 

 eolour, equally merit particular attention. 



The firft, and indeed the only one. of the kind I ever 

 law, was caught by an angler. It was about the fize of 

 a large anchovy, and, the dorado excepted, was certainly 

 the moll beautiful coloured fifh I ever faw. Its back and 

 fides were divided in longitudinal bars of fine yellow and 

 a deep blueilh black, the belly was filver, the eyes wer-e 

 Mack and gold, and the fins a glowing tranfparent vermi- 

 ^ , lion;- 



