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CHAP, tempers, of which the leprofv is one : and that diforder 

 i_ -^-.Jj is, as 1 have ah^eady ftated, abfokitely incurable. Never- 

 thelefs his age, thoagh he could not exadlly afcertain it, 

 muft have been very great, lince he ufed frequently to 

 repeat that he acted as drummer, and beat the alarm on 

 . his mafter's eflaie;, when the French commodore, Jacques 

 CaJJard, put the colony under contribution, in the year 

 1712. 



Having taken a portrait of this extraordinary man? 

 with his grey head of hair, and drefTed in his blue and 

 fcarlet with gold lace, I, in the annexed plate, beg leave 

 to introduce it to the reader. 



This very fame w^eek we had indeed a frefh proof of 

 the good effects of Gram man Quacy's animating obias or 

 amulets, a captain of the rangers, named Hannibal^ 

 bringing in the barbacued hands of two rebel negroes, 

 which he had himfelf encountered and fhot ; and one of 

 thefe hands proved to be that of the noted rebel Cupido^ 

 formerly taken, in 1774? and brought to Colonel Four- 

 geoud in the foreft, but from whom he had lince that 

 time,, though loaded with chains, found means to run 

 away. 



In returning the vifits of my friends, I paid one to Mr, 

 Andrew Reynfdorp, who fliewed me the loop and button 

 of his hat, which being diamond, had coft him two hun- 

 dred guineas — fuch is the luxury of Surinam. But even 

 this is exceeded by the magnificence of M. d'Ahiberghy 

 who, when I waited on him, befides a gold fnuff-box fet 



with 



