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with brilliants, value fix hundred pounds fterling, made chap. 

 me remark two filver bits (finall pieces of money) fet in ^ "^^^^ 

 gold, and furrounded with diamonds, with this infcrip- 

 tion : 



" Soli Deo Gloria. Fortuna beaticum, &c." 



Having fignified my furprize at this peculiar attention 

 and refpe6t to two lixpences, he declared to me that they 

 were all the money he had in the world when he firfi: 

 came to Surinam from his own country, Sweden. — " Did 

 " you work r" faid I.—" No."~" Did you beg ?"— " No." 

 — " You did not fleal, fir ?" — " No : but, entre nous^ I 

 whined and adled the enthufiaft, which fometimes is 

 very necefiTary, and I found preferable to the other 

 three."" — To which I anfwered, " Sir, your candid con- 

 fefi[ion brings back to my remembrance your ufage of 

 " your negro flave, Baron, after having promifed him his 

 manumiffion in Amfterdam, and fully proves what 

 you have juft afferted." — One inftance more of the ex- 

 travagance and folly of the inhabitants of this colony, 

 and I have done : Two of them difputing about a mofir 

 elegant and expenfive carriage that was imported from 

 Holland, a law-fuit enfued immediately, to determine 

 who was to poffefs it, during which time the coach was 

 left uncovered in the ftreet till it fell to pieces, and was 

 .totally deftroyed. 



On the loth of February, mofl: of our officers benig 

 now arrived at Paramaribo from the camp. Colonel 



Fourgeoud 



