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Fonrgeoud, ridiculing him for his embaffy to the Owca 

 and Sera?neca negroes : which gentlemanj though he had 

 no affittance from thefe allies to expe6t, and his troops 

 now melted down almoft to nothing, neverlhelefs fcorned 

 to keep thofe that could ftand upon their feet ina6live. 

 Thus, having provided the few remaining privates with 

 new cloathes (the Jirji they had received lince 1772) 

 befides new fabres, bill-hooks, Sic. he fent them all 

 once more up, accompanied only by the fubalterns, to 

 be encamped at the mouth of the Gaffipore Creek, in 

 the upper parts of the Cottica river; the ftafi' officers and 

 captains being ordered foon to follow : and on the 7th 

 we were treated by our commander, for the time, with 

 a (irloin of good roaft-beef, which, however, was fent him 

 from Amfterdam, prepared as I have already defcribed. 

 At the deffert was a kind of fruit called in Smm^Lm pomme 

 de canelle, or cinnamon- apple : it grows on a flirub in 

 moft gardens at Paramaribo, and has fomething the ap- 

 pearance of a young artichoke, being covered with a kind 

 of green fcales. The il^in of this fruit is half an inch 

 thick, and the pulp like clotted cream mixed with brown 

 fugar : it is very fweet, but not much efteemed by many 

 palates, being rather too lufcious ; the feeds, which are 

 black; hard, and large, are contained in the pulp or 

 creamy fubftance. 



Having now prepared myfelf once more for a(5lual fer- 

 vice, and again received a profufion of wine, fpirits, and 

 refrelhments of every kind, to carry with me to the 



woods, 



