EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



large as life, and the new-mar a confiderably lefs. The 

 drawings were honoured in Surinam with the epithets of 

 mafterly performances. 



Several officers who kept poultry and hogs at this pe- 

 riod loft all the latter in the fpace of two days, being poi- 

 foned probably by eating duncane, or fome other fatal 

 weed that was unknown to us. And yet it has been a 

 general obfervation, as I have faid before, that all ani- 

 mals know by inftind: to diftinguini their food from their 

 poifon. 



Mr. Seyburg now returned from the Hope in triumph, 

 with Lieutenant Dederlin (one of Colonel Fourgeoud's 

 officers) gviarded by a ferjeant and fix marines with fixed 

 bayonets, for having been wanting in refpeft, as that 

 gentleman pleafed to call it. 



On the 7th, the fick officers and foldiers alfb arrived 

 from the Hope in barges ; fome of the latter, being too 

 ill to bear removing, died on the pafiTage without medi- 

 cines, and without affiftance. One of our furgeons died 

 alfo this day in camp, and a number of the privates died 

 daily. This was the confequence of having marched fo 

 much in the wet feafon, which was judged however by 

 our chief to be the only feafon in which he was likely to 

 root the rebels from the foreft of Guiana. 



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