EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



and the llirieking of the Jlrix or Guiana owl, which for 

 ever kept them company during the difmal nights. 

 Cramps, fo common in Surinam, alfo infefted thofe that 

 were able to do duty ; and there reigned a general melan- 

 choly all around. 



" The circlmg flcy, 



" The wide enlivening air, is full of fate j 

 " And, ftruck by turns, in folitary pangs 

 " They fall, untended and unmourn'd." 



Here one man was to be feen covered over with bloody 

 boils from head to foot ; there another led along by two 

 of his comrades in a deep lethargy, who, in fpite of pinch- 

 ing and pricking, dofed into eternity ; a third, fwelled by 

 the dropfy, and imploring the furgeon in vain to tap off 

 the water (who generally anfwered that it was too late) was 

 left to expire by fufFocation. In.the hofpital forae were 

 obferved clafping their hands, and praying aloud to God 

 to be relieved ; while others lay at their fide in a frenzy 

 fever, tearing their hair, blafpheming Providence, and 

 curiing the day that they were born. — In fliort, all was 

 dreadful beyond defcription, by the pen of a MiltOti 

 excepted, 



— ■ — " Sad noifome darkj 



" A lazar-houfe it feem'd, wherein were laid 

 " Numbers of all, difeas'd : all maladif s 



Of ghaftly fpafm or racking torture ; qualms 

 " Of heart-fick agony, all feverous kinds, ^ ^ 



X X 2 " Convulfions, 



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CHAP, 

 XXVIII. 



