EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



covered, arrived, to my great fatisfa6lion, as his fidelity to CHAP, 

 me was fo fteady and unlliaken. At the fame time we . 

 received aa account that Captain Stoehnan, with fome 

 rangers, had difcovered a frefli fettlement of the rebels 

 by a great fmoke appearing at a dillance in the foreil, but 

 had not yet attacked them ; that Captain Fredericy, with 

 a party of black volunteers, was fcouring the fea-fide 

 below Paramaribo; that the two men we had loft on the 

 i8th of Auguft had miraculoufly efcaped, and found 

 their way to the poft at the river Marawina; and that no 

 lefs than twelve fine negro Haves had ju£t deferted from 

 the Gold Mine eftate to join the rebels. 



This news fo much exafperated Colonel Fourgeoud, 

 that the indefatigable man again determined to perfe-^ 

 vere in purfuing his enemies. We accordingly entered 

 the woods very early on the morning of the 15th, al- 

 though he and his little army were at this time greatly 

 reduced. He buried but the evening before one of his 

 countrymen, a volunteer, called Matthew, and brother to 

 the enfign : but death was now become fo familiar to us^ 

 that upon lofing a friend or relation, the fir ft queftion 

 generally was, " Has he left any brandy, rum, or to- 



bacco <^ Pauvre Laurant ! " faid I, to his fiirivelled 

 valet-de-chambre, the brave Fourgeoud is like fire ; he 



is to the colony an excellent fervant indeed; but I think 

 " to both you and myfelf but a roughifli mafter." The 

 poor fellow, fhrugging up his fhoulders, replied, with a 

 grin and a heavy figh, " Oui-i par ma foi then treated 



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