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CHAP, been obliged to leave him a flave, and was now dead. 



X'XVII 



Heartily tired of my excnrfion, I was now glad to make 

 hafte back to Paramaribo; where, as foon as I arrived, the 

 firft news I heard was that Colonel Fourgeoud's French 

 valet-de-chambre, poor Monfieur Laurant, had actually 

 been buried before he was quite dead ; — and that, for hav- 

 ing been found drunk in an ale-houfe, no lefs than thir- 

 teen of our men had moft feverely run the gauntlet, and as 

 many been terribly baftinadoed, the greateft number of 

 which no more fa w Europe ; — alfo, that a Quaderoon youth 

 and a Dutch failor were found murdered on the beach. — 

 1 was now proceeding to take a walk on the plain or efpla- 

 nade, but here I was called in by Mr. St — k — r, who con- 

 ' du6ling me three ftories high : " From this window (faid 

 he) a " few days fince, leaped one of my black boys, to ef- 

 *' cape a gentle flogging ; however, having only fainted 



in confeqvience of his fall, we foon brought him to life 

 " again by a hearty fcouring on the ribs, fo he did not 

 *^ efcape; after which, for having rifked himfelf, that is 

 " to fay his mafter's property, and frightened my wife, Ihe 

 <^ ordered him to be fent to Fort Zelandia, where he re- 

 " ceived the intereft, that is a moft confounded fpanfo^ 



bockor 



The punifhment called fpanfo-bocko is extremely fe- 

 vere indeed, and is executed in the following manner : — 

 The prifoner's hands being lafhed together, he is laid 

 down on the ground on one fide, with his knees thruft 

 between his arms, and thefe confined by a flrong flake, 



which 



