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CHAP. During this fliort fpace of tranquillity I conflru^led in 

 XXViir. miniature mv cottage in which 1 lived at the Hope, on an 

 oblong board of about eighteen inches by twelve, which 

 being entirely made of the manicole-tree and branches-, 

 like the original, w^as efteemed a mafter-piece; and this I 

 fent as a prefent to my friend Mr. de Graaff at Paramaribo, 

 who fince placed it in a cabinet of natural curiofities at 

 Amfterdam. As I am upon this fubje£t, I am tempted 

 to prefent the reader with a view of two of my habita- 

 tions, the one that at the Hope, where I fpent fuch happy 

 days ; and the other temporary, fuch as in the woods we 

 conftrucfled to be fheltered from the weather : — the firft 

 may be confidered as the emblem of domeftic felicity.;^ 

 the fecond of ruflick hardQiip and fatigue. 



The troops of the Society of Surinam, who had been; 

 encamped at the Wana Creek (the rainy feafon prema- 

 turely fetting in) now wifely broke up, and on the n^\\ 

 palling by iis, rowed down the river Gottica on their way 

 to the plantations in the Pirica Greek ; but as for us, we 

 were as ufual condemned to linger in the Caffipore camp,, 

 while Fourgeoud ftill kept fnug at Paramaribo. With 

 the above officers we received intelligence that a few 

 more rebels had been taken at the Marawina ; while we 

 ourfelves daily continued to fend out patroles to the right 

 and left, but met with nothing to capture.. 



At lali, on the 29^ h, fix barges came to an anchor before 

 our encampment, with part of the frefh troops that were 

 arrived from Holland for our relief ; which 1 could not 



help 



