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NARRATIVE OF AN 



CHAP. Next morning, having flept during moft of the paf- 



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i _ -.'_f ^"^gG> I breakfafted at Devil's Harwar, where I found that 

 the unfortunate Gibhart had juft fet fail for the o^/jer 

 world. In the evening we arrived at the eflate Beekilied, 

 as my negroes had made extraordinary difpatch,y^/«;^/;?^ 

 ivattra * all the time to encourage each other. 



On the 3d I arrived at the fortrefs Amfterdam, where 

 1 was entertained with an excellent fifli dinner, and 

 where I muft again intreat the reader's patience, while I 

 attempt to defcribe the different fpecies, viz. the pajfary, 

 prare-prare, provojl, and cure ma. The palTary is above 

 two feet long, and weighs fometimes twenty pounds : 

 the head is broad and flat ; it has two long barbs, and no 

 . fcales, and is very delicate eating. The prare-prare is 

 about the fame fize, and equally good. The provoft is 

 large, often five feet, and of a yellowilh colour ; the flefh 

 of this is lefs agreeable, but the oil it produces comes to 

 good account. As for the curema, this is a fpecies of 

 mullet, fometimes above two feet in length, with large 

 iilvery eyes, and the under jaw longer than the upper. 

 Near this place are alfo found a kind of Jea-fnailSy of 

 which Madam Merian makes mention ; and the fore-part 

 of which exactly refembles thofe of a fhrimp. 



In the evening at fix o'clock I arrived once more at 

 Paramaribo, and found Joanna with her little boy per- 



* That is, one of the rowers beating from the reftj to which the others fing % 

 the water with his oar at every ftroke, in chorus, 

 fuch a manner that it founds different 



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