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Fourgeoud being reached me, unfortunately fell over- CHAP. 



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board into the water, and fank immediately ; fome , _ ^ _ ' ^, 

 officers, however, the next day coming to the Hope, 

 informed me of the principal contents, viz. that Colonel 

 Fourgeoud, being determined once more to fcour the 

 woods, had ordered me to fend up all my fpare men 

 and provifions, as alfo the Society troops who were now 

 at Oranjebo, the former to Magdenberg, and the latter 

 to the river Pirica; which I performed, retaining only- 

 twelve crippled foldiers at the Hope, and as many at Cla- 

 renbeek, without either furgeon or medicines ; neverthe- 

 lefs, with this fmall number^ I made daily patroles by land 

 and water — they alfo informed me of the death of enfign 

 Van Halm, and that another fhip with lick was ordered 

 lliortly to fet fail for Holland. 



Colonel Fourgeoud, though he himfelf remained flill 

 at Paramaribo, yet continued attentively to command. 

 Thus, on the 23d, he ordered a detachment of one hun- 

 dred men to reconnoitre from Magdenberg to the Wana 

 Creek and Marawina river ; but they returned without any 

 new difcoveries. . 



As I was now likely to be continued at the Hope for 

 fome time, I fent for my flieep and poultry, from the 

 eftate where 1 had left them, prefenting Mr. Gourly with 

 a ram and a ewe, as being of a breed fuperior to any in 

 the colony ; and I found with joy that my flocks had 

 confiderably encreafed in numbers. 



On the 26tU one of my men brought me a fnake^ 



which 



