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19S NARRATIVEOFAN 

 CHAP, grieved me very much was the other news from Europe, 



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1^^'^' that the Scots Brigade had been invited to England 

 by his Britannic Majefty, while I was lamenting that I 

 could not poffibly be one of the number^'--. I at the fame 

 time had the offer of an American company under Ge- 

 neral Wafhington, but this I refufed without any hefita- 

 tion, as may be fuppofed. 



In fliort, on the i8th of February, the poor difpirited 

 men were again fent up to Magdenburg, a large party 

 ftill remaining at the Java Creek ; whilft the temper of 

 the officers was now fo ruffled, that a Mr. Fi/her of our 

 corps fought no lefs than two duels in two fvTcceeding 

 days, dangeroufiy wounding both his antagonifts, who 

 were both officers of the Society regiment. 



As I was not yet recovered, I ftaid fome time longer at 

 Paramaribo, where at the houfe of a Mr. Reynfdorp, I 

 faw a Portuguefe Jew teaching his children the Chrijiian 

 religion, while the pious mother of the charity-houfe 

 kept flogging the poor flaves daily, ->ocaufe they were, 

 as flie faid, unbelievers. To one black woman, in parti- 

 cular, flie wantonly gave four hundred laflies, who bore 

 them without a complaint. 



But to change the difagreeable fubje6l ; — while I have 

 the ieifure and the opportunity, I feel the inclination to 

 itate to the public a ffiort account of the trade and in- 

 ^trinfic value of this blood-fpilling colony ; which ftill 



* The King's demand was negatived by the States of Holland. 



might 



