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ih'ip Paramaribo^ 'Captain Spruyt (being one of the veffels 

 that carried over the fick in the beginning of Auguft) was 

 wrecked and entirely loft in the channel, on the rocks of 

 UJJjant ; but that, by the exertions of fome French fifhing- 

 boats, the crew and troops had all been faved, and carried 

 into Breft, whence they had taken a frefh paffage for the 

 Texel; after which the Prince of Orange (who was ever 

 diftingiiiflied for benevolence, and doing good and hu- 

 mane ad:ions) ordered the officers and private men, above 

 one hundred in number, to receive the following fums, 

 by way of defraying their lofs, vii^. each marine received 

 about four, the fubalterns thirty, the captains forty, and 

 Major Medlar, who commanded, fifty pounds fterling. 

 However, by this fhipwreck, I loft all my three chefts 

 of fweetmeats and pickles, befides parrots, butterflies, 

 monkies, &:c. intended as prefents to my friends in Eu- 

 rope, which indifcriminately went to the bottom, to my 

 no fniall mortification. 



Having now for above a month been lodged in a paltry 

 hut, beaten by the wind and fliowers of rain (which began 

 to fet in unexpe^fledly) ; and being informed, that not- 

 withftanding the arrival of the relief, we were ftill to- 

 ftay fome time longer in the woods, which broke many 

 hearts; I, on the 12th of December, earneftly fet about 

 building for myfelf a comfortable houfe, and which was 

 finiftied, without either nail or hammer, in lefs than fix 

 days, though it had two rooms, a piazza with rails, and a 



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