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places.— In the annexed plate may be feen the Anetna 

 or pine-apple, with the mulk and water-melon, befides 

 the feed from which this laft is produced. 



I fent about this period, to a Mr. Reygerfman in Holland, 

 a moft elegant colled:ion of Surinam butterflies., which 

 are here caught in great abundance and variety, and by 

 which alone fome people make no fmall profit ; but the 

 very idea of pinning them alive to a llieet of paper, was 

 fufiicient to prevent me from becoming a fly-catcher : 



Lo ! the poor beetle that we tread upon 

 ^ Feels a like pang, as when a giant falls.'* 



Now Captains Van Geurick and Fredericy, with Ser- 

 jeant Fowler, were fent on an embaffy to the Owca and 

 Saraineca free negroes, if poflible to procure their af- 

 fiflance againft the rebels, which they always continued 

 to promife (while Colonel Fourgeoud gave them prefents) 

 but never yet performed, A few of the other officers 

 ftill flayed with us gallanting at Paramaribo, amongfl 

 whom were Major Medler and Captain Hemmet*, who 

 had both been with General Defalve's regiment, in the 

 colony Berbicey and previous to that the firft w^as in the 

 Pruflian fervice. It was no fmall change of appearance 



• The latter gentleman, in the year throned alfo the king of Salangoo^ vihoh 

 1783, failed from the Texel to the Mo- land he captured for the Dutch Eaft-Iii* 

 Jucca iflands; where, as commander in dia Company, befides taking 127 pieces 

 chief, he killed the king of Pongue, with of cannon, &C 

 three Tons, and 600 men i and de- 



for 



