EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



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CHAP. XXVIL 



^he Rape of the Sabines-^Sbocklng Execution^ and African 

 Fortitude — Defcription of an Indigo Plantation — I'Jje 

 Spanfo Bocko, a PuniJJjment — T'be Troops again re-enter 

 the Woods—The Expedition draws to a Conclujion, 



OT WITHSTANDING the fucceffive defeats and re- chap. 

 peated diftreffes of the rebels, news was brought to ^^^li* 

 Paramaribo, on the 12th of Augrfft, that they had fallen 

 upon the eftate Bergendaly or the Blue Bergh, which is alfo 

 called Mount Parnajfus, lituated in the higher parts of the 

 River Surinam, and carried away all the black women, 

 although a military pofl: was ftatipned near the above 

 place, but without committing any kind of cruelty, as too 

 generally had been their cviftom. Upon this intelligence a 

 party of the rangers was inftantly detached thither to affift 

 in purfuing them ; and about this fame time the long^ 

 projedted cordon^ or path of circumvallation round the 

 colony, was alfo began to be cut, by feven hundred negro 

 Haves ; which path was henceforth to be manned Vvith 

 military piquets at proper diftances, to defend the eftates 

 againft any farther invafions from without, and to pre- 

 vent defertion to the enemy from within. 



Mount Parnaffus, which was the fcene of the late rape 

 of the Sabines^ is fituated on the weft fide of the River 



P p 2 Surinam, 



