EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



ill, that he at length was obliged to relinquifh his com- 

 mandj and proceed to town for his recovery. Accord- 

 ingly on the isth, he fet out by water for Paramaribo : 

 thus, a'^ter having facrificed all his troops, he became 

 himfelf finally a vidtim to his unbounded ambition and 

 obftinate perfeverance in this worft of all climates, while 

 by toiling lefs and living better both he and his foldiers 

 might have rendered the colony, if not fuperior, at leaft an 

 equal fervice. — A barge loaded with fick and dying was 

 at the fame time once more fent to the hofpital at Devil's 

 Harwar. 



The command of the remaining fcarecrows now de- 

 volved upon the Lieutenant Colonel, who (ftrange to tell!) 

 that very evening inherited the fame diftemper, as well 

 as the chief command ; the barge that rowed off the 

 old hero having but juft difappeared, when this gentle- 

 man was attacked alfo by the phrenzy fever ; the above 

 complaint was indeed at this time very common amongft 

 all ranks and degrees who were broiling under a burning 

 fun at Jerufalem; it being the dry feafon, when we ought 

 to have been in the woods — but for thofe expeditions, as I 

 have ftated before, the rainy feafons were moft unhappily 

 preferred. Several officers would have before now thrown 

 up their military commiffions, could they with decency 

 have taken fuch a meafure, during an expedition on ac- 

 tual fervice; nor, in my opinion, ought fuch to be grant- 

 ed, cafes of the very greateil neceffity excepted. I could 

 myfelf have wifhed to go for fome time to Paramaribo, 



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