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with me to Holland, but to no piirpofe ; Joanna was CHAP, 

 perfedly immoveable, even to a degree of heroifm, and ' 

 no perfuafion could make the lead impreffion upon her, 

 until her redemption fliould be made complete by the 

 payment of the very iaft farthing. In this fituation we 

 affected to bear our fate with perfe6l refignation, though 

 what each of us felt in particular may much more eafily 

 be imagined than defcribed. 



The regiment's colours were now carried on board on 

 the 23d in great ftate, which put a final clofe to the ex- 

 pedition, but without receiving any honours from Fort 

 Zealandia, not a fingle gun being fired, nor even the flag 

 hoifted on the occafion, to the great mortification of Go* 

 lonel Fourgeoud, though in efFedl it was chiefly owing to 

 his own neglect, as he had never given the Governor 

 official notice of his intended departure. The baggage 

 was aifo fent on board the fliips ; and a gentleman of the 

 name of Fa7^ Heyjl entertained the marines at his private 

 expence with three hundred bottles of wine, fruit, &c. 



I have often remarked the hofpitality and generofity of 

 thefe people, which I now alfo once more experienced, 

 receiving various prefents of fruits and preferves from 

 my numerous friends, to refrefh me at fea while on the 

 voyage; amongftthe preferves were the itm-slQ pappayas, 

 the male bearing no fruit. This grows on a grey trunk, 

 near twenty feet high, ftraight, and pithy within, the top 

 being covered with a crown, and only fourteen or fixteen 

 diverging leaves, extremely large and digitated. The 

 fruit grows clofe to the trunk ; the flower or blofTom has 



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