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down. F is the beetle that produces the mnureecee CHAP, 

 worms, which are not fo large nor fo delicious as thofe . , 

 produced by the mountain-cabbage. Having had no op- 

 portunity of fhewing in what manner the Indians and 

 Africans afcend trees, by figure H I have reprefented a 

 negro climbing a young maureecee-tree, to which they . 

 do not cling with their arms and legs, but taking the 

 trunk between their hands, they place the foles of their • 

 feet againft it, and thus walk up in a moft aftonifhing 

 manner ; by this method they fave their fkin from the 

 bark, but it muft certainly require very great ftrength, 

 activity, and pra6tice. 



Having thus far dwelt on the palm-tree fpecies, I muft 

 once more return to domeftic occurrences. 

 - I have faid that all the officers and moft of the privates 

 who had lately been ftationed at the Hope, had died, or 

 were fent up dangeroufly ill, while I had efcaped the 

 contagion. But, alas ! now it became my turn,, having 

 only had a reprieve, and no more : for on the 9th I was 

 feized with the fame burning fever that had carried off 

 the reft; and even my black boy Quaco was very ill. 



On the 14th, n^ceffity forced me to give up the com- 

 mand to another ofticer, and depart from this inhofpitable 

 fpot on my way to Paramaribo : I could however reach 

 no farther than Goet Accoord, and there, on the 15th, 

 all expected my death ; when an old negro womaii found 

 means to make me partake of feme butter-milk, boiled 

 with fome barley and melaiTes, which was the firft food 



I had 



