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two hundred florins to Mrs. Godefroy, and all were 

 happy. I muft not omit, as a farther proof of Mrs. Gode- 

 froy's humane characSler, that on hearing of the dejedled 

 fituation of the fick at Magdenberg, (lie at this time fent 

 them a prefent of a whole barge-load of fruit, vegeta- 

 bles, and refrelhments of every kind that the colony 

 could afford, for their relief. 



On the 7th of April, matters being thus far fettled, I 

 wrote a letter to Mr. Lude, at Amfterdam, to give him in- 

 telligence, and to thank him for having p<irted with the 

 nioji valuable property of his ertate ; and my ancle being 

 now pretty well recovered, I alfo wrote to Colonel Four- 

 geoud, that I flrould have the honour to join him in a 

 few days. This letter I diredled to Barbacoeba, for there 

 he ftill continued, while the intrepid and active militia 

 captain, Stoeleman, was beating up the woods with a few 

 rangers at another quarter, and who this day fent in 

 four captive rebel negroes to Paramaribo *. 



On the loth, finding myfelf fufficiently recovered, and 

 ready once more to enter the foreft, I bade farewell to my 

 fweet family and friends, leaving the firfl itill at Mr. de la 

 Mare's, at their requeft ; and cheerfully fet off with a tent- 

 boat on my fifth campaign, in the hopes of accompany- 

 ing Fourgeoud; who, having aiTembled all his remaining 

 forces, and made the necefiary arrangements to attack 



* It is a maxim with the rangers to they fend in alive fifty florins; alfo for 

 chop ofF the right hand of every rebel finding a town or village one thoufmd 

 negco they kill, for which they receive florins Hollands, 

 twenty-five florins ; and for every one 



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