EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



dung-f^fh, about the fize of a fmall herring, but thefe two 

 laft were only ufe i by the negroes. 



On the 3cl of Dvcember, Major Medlar's party returned, 

 after fourteen days abfence, with a captive rebel woman 

 and her boy about ei^ii. years old, taken in a fmall field 

 of bitter caflava. The poor woman was pregnant, and 

 under great alarms, but was tenderly treated by Medlar, 

 who w IS always a humane and well-difpofed gentleman. 

 He had, however, unluckily loll: two of his heft men, one 

 Scboe^ar^ a corporal, the other called Philip Van den BoSy 

 a private marine, who having inadvertently eaten a few 

 roots of the above bitter cajfava were poifoned, and died 

 during the fame night with the moft excruciating pain 

 and convuKions : the antidote is faid to be Cayenne pep- 

 per and fpirits, neither of which were at that time to be 

 procured. 



The black woman confirmed the account that Bonny 

 had been wounded ; flie alfo told us the poor fbarved ne- 

 gro we had found was called Ifaac, and had been left for 

 dead. That one Captain Arico had formed a new fettle- 

 ment near the fea, called FiJJy-Hollo ; while Bonny, fiie 

 alTured us, maintained the ftri<5teft difcipline amongft his 

 troops : he was, flie faid, abfolutely defpotic, and had exe- 

 cuted two of his men but three days before we took 

 Gado-Saby, viz. during the night of the 17th Aiigull, 

 when we heard the firing and fliouting, only upon fuf- 

 picion of having hinted fome few words in favour of the 

 Europeans, and were the heads which we found fiuck 



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