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circumftance that could add to my full fatisfaBion, I 

 then frankly and fincerely gave my hand to Colonel 

 Seybiirg, who gave a feaft in honour of our reconci- 

 liation ; and after dinner, to my utter furprize, pro- 

 duced the letter which I had written to Colonel Four- 

 geoud, which he acknowledged he had intercepted to 

 prevent the affair proceeding to extremities : at the 

 fame time he acquainted me, that Fourgeoud was en- 

 camped at the Wana Creek, inftead of Lieutenant Colo- 

 nel de Borgnes, who had fallen lick, and- was gone to Pa- 

 ramaribo. A perfect reconciliation having taken place, 

 and every thing being now adjufted, while the troops 

 having had fome reft, we fet out once more on the 4th 

 for the head quarters at Jerufalem ; but I was obliged to 

 leave poor Quaco, who was very ill, at Devil's Harwar, 

 under care of the furgeon ; and that evening we en- 

 camped oppofite the mouth of the Cormoetibo Creek. 



On the following morning early, having crofted the 

 River Cottica, the troops marched back to Jerufalem ; 

 where I now had leifure to refledl on the various evils 

 which befal poor mortals, as well thofe who are innocent 

 of the difficulties they are brought into, as thofe (which 

 are the greater part) who have brought themfelves into 

 diftrefs and even defpair by their own indifcretions. 

 Thefe refle(5lions arofe from finding here, among others, 

 a newly-arrived acquaintance, a Mr. P — t' — r, who hav- 

 ing fquandered away in Europe above thirty tboufand 

 pounds, and loft a beautiful wife by elopement, was now 

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