EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



This march was peculiarly difagreeable, upon account 

 of the heavy rains, which now began to fall down in 

 torrents, overflowing the banks of all the rivers ; and fo 

 cold were the damps in the morning, contrafted with the 

 late warm days, that we frequently lay Ihivering in our 

 hammocks as in froft, efpecially when fleeping in wet 

 cloaths. This inconvenience, however, I obviated to day 

 by marching half naked, like the rangers, and putting 

 my fliirt in one of the reverfed kettles, during the rain- 

 thus my ikin foon drying, after a fhower, I again put on 

 my linen, and found myfelf much more comfortable than 

 any of my trembling ghaftly looking companions. 



On the evening of the 23d, we encamped near a ri- 

 vulet called the Caymans or Alligator Creek; where a 

 tree called Monbiara afforded fome excellent fruit, but 

 this was entirely ftripped by the flaves before I could 

 either tafte or even fee it in perfe(5lion. 



The rains continuing to pour down in a deluge, I 

 again marched ftripped on the 24th, and we flung our 

 hammocks in the evening, near a brook called I^orica^ 

 or the Devil's Creek, where we made huts or fheds to co- 

 ver us, and flowed the proviflons upon rafters. 



On the following day we once more laboured through 

 deep mud and water, in very heavy rains, and encamped 

 at another fmall brook, called the Java Creek, three 

 miles below the Wana. 



On the 26th I was feleded, with a fmall party, to re- 

 connoitre the old famps at Wana Creek. In the evening 



we 



