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there, more than once. Thus every thing promifed fair 

 to crown our endeavours with fuccefs, and finally to re- 

 eflablifh fafety and tranquillity in the colony. 



On our paffage we flopped at the eft ate Saardan, the 

 proprietor of which (by a late marriage) was our Lieu- 

 tenant Colonel Des Borgnes. I found here an American 

 failor who came to load molalTes, and having an inclina- 

 tion to try the Ikill of the new planter (and his overfeer) 

 in rum, I defired the tar to colour a couple of gallons of 

 kill-devil made at the very fame plantation, and bring 

 them alliore as rum brought from Antigua. He did fo, 

 and they gave him in exchange for it a fix gallon keg of 

 the very fame fpirits; declaring it was much better than 

 their own, and then drank the contents in punch, to my 

 very great entertainment. The failor faid he fiiould 

 colour the fix gallons alfo, and did not doubt of loading 

 his boat to the water's edge before he reached Paramaribo. 

 — Such, in all countries, is the force of prejudice. 



Having been very well entertained at Saardan, we 

 fet forward, and arrived fafe in the encampment at the 

 Cafleepore Creek, in Cottica River, on the 13th; where, 

 in ftepping afliore, being without fhoes and ftockings, 

 I narrowly efcaped being bitten by a land-fcorpion. This 

 infe6t is of the fize of a fmall cray-fiili, and has an oval 

 body; its colour is like that of foot, and it is jointed in 

 moveable rings : it has eight legs, divided by joints, and 

 two jointed claws projedling from the head, appearing 

 like part of the body, with fuch fmall eyes that they are 



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