EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



Ill 



raifed companies of fable volunteers had taken a few chap. 

 prifoners, and killed others on the Wanica path, behind xxiv> 



-*■ ' _ I ~y II 11* 



Paramaribo. I was at this time a good deal better, but ftill, 

 not being quite recovered, he who had formerly treated 

 me fo feverely, now even infifted on my flaying fome 

 longer time at Paramaribo : nay, gave me an offer to re- 

 turn to Europe, which I abfolutely ref ufed ; in ihort, about 

 the middle of the month, I was as well as ever I was in 

 my life. At this time Colonel Fourgeoud and myfelf 

 were daily vifitors of the ladies, in whofe company no 

 man could behave better, while I could often not avoid 

 difguft ; indeed fo languid were many in their looks, and 

 fo unreftrained were fome in their converfation, that a 



Mrs. N even afked me, fans cerempnie, to fupply the 



j)lace of her hufband ; while fhe might as well have alked 

 jne to drink, for a relifti, a tumbler of falts. 



On the 17th, however, my eyes were better feafted, 

 when, going to dine with Colonel Texier of the Society 

 troops, I firft took a walk in the orange grove and the 

 governor's gardens ; here, peeping through the foliage, 

 I foon difcovered two moft elegant female figures after 

 bathing, the one a fine young the other a /^/oo/;^- 



ing S^aderoon, which lafl was fo very fair complexioned, 

 that file might have palTed for a native of Greece, while 

 the rofes that glowed in her cheek were equal to thofe 

 that blofTomed in the fhrubbery They were walking 



* It is to be remarked, that though Eu-. nefs peculiarly engaging, particularly 

 fopeans look pale under the torrid zone, mulattoes and quaderoons, 

 the native inhabitants have often a freHi- 



E e j hand 



