EXPEDITION TO SURINAM 



C H A P. XXIV. 



fzvo Volunteer Companies raifed, of free Mulattoes and 

 Negroes — Defcription of the Arrowouka Indian Nation — 

 Colonel Fourgeoud's Regiment receives orders to fail for 

 Europe — Countermanded — Re-enter the Woods — Trade of 



O what good ftar I was obliged, in the midft of all CHAP. 



our confuHon and diftrefs, I know not, but certain 

 it is, that Colonel Seybnrg having fent for me on the firft 

 day of the new year, not only folicited my future friend- 

 fliip, but declared he was forry for all the ill-treatment 

 he had ever occafioned me, for which he principally 

 blamed Mr. Gibhart, his adjutant and fpy ; then taking 

 me by the hand, as a proof of his real regard, permitted 

 me from that moment to go to Paramaribo, or wherever 

 I pleafed, to refrefh and refit until further orders; which 

 had fuch an effetSl on me, that having inftantly converted 

 every drop of my rum into grog, we fat down, together 

 with two other officers, and drowned all former animo- 

 fity in oblivion, till we could hardly fee each other. In 

 this condition I took my leave that very evening of my 

 new friend and the camp at Java Creek, and rowed down 

 in the beft fpirits for Paramaribo. 

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the Colony — Defcription of a Cacao EJlate — Sample of 

 Sable Heroifm, 



