EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



{laves neverthelefs fele6led the moft tolerable, which, CHAP. 



XXVIII. 



fried in the evening, ferved them for a dehcate morfel. J. 



The naorning following we again marched fcuth-weft 

 by weft, when we flung our hammocks not above four 

 miles from the CafTepore Creek ; and on the 26th (keep- 

 ing fouth-fouth-weft) we arrived in the grand camp, much 

 fatigued and emaciated, myfelf with a fwelled face or 

 eryfipelas; when I gave in my journal to Lieutenant- 

 Colonel de Borgnes, who commanded * : and I believe, upon 

 my honour, that had we been ordered to remain twenty 

 years on this expedition, with a poflibility of faving our 

 lives, the different difeafes, plagues, and torments, would 

 ftill have accumulated and varied without end. 



A detachment of fifty men w^as next fent out to recon- 

 noitre at Jerufalem, &c. ; and on the 6th of December 

 the long-expecSted rel/ef, confifting of three hundred and 

 fifty men, arrived in the river Surinam from Holland^ 

 after a voyage of nine weeks and three days, of which 

 they fpent a fortnight at Plymouth. 



By thefe the unfortunate account w^as brought, that, 

 Captain "Jochem Meyer (who had on board a coniiderablc 

 fum of money for our troops) was taken by the Moors, 

 and carried with his crew to Morocco, w^here they were 

 ^ondem^ied to be flaves to the emperor f; and that the 



* See the above route, ^nd all the others f The above captain and his crevf 

 to Gado-Saby, in Plate LVI. where they were fince fet at liberty, having been ran- 

 jire by different lines diftLndlj marked. fomed b/ tjie Dutck. 



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