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CHAP. Fourgeoiul entertained the whole with a feafl, as he was 



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pleafed to call it, at the head-quarters ; an old ftable lan- 

 thorn, with broken panes of glafs, hanging over our heads, 

 -which I expelled every moment to drop into the foup. 

 And here he acquainted us, with evident marks of fatis- 

 fadion, that he had at laft put a final end to the expe- 

 dition ; having, notwith (landing there was fo little blood- 

 Hied, perfedlly accompliflied his aim in rooting out the 

 rebels, by deftroying twenty-one towns or villages, 

 and demolifliing two hundred fields with vegetables 

 of every kind, on which they depended for fubfiftence : 

 alfo, that the intelligence was now confirmed, that the 

 negroes were to a man fled over the River Marawina, 

 where they and their friends were fettled, and prote(5led 

 ' by the French colony of Cayenne, who not only gave 



them flielter, but fupplied them with every thing they 

 wanted. On which good news we all heartily congratu- 

 lated him, and drank further profperity to the colony of 

 Surinam with three cheers ; the future fafety of which 

 now depended on the new cordon or path of circumval- 

 lation, defended by the troops of the Society, and the corps 

 of black foldiers or rangers. 



In Dr. Fir^nyji'?, works. Colonel Fourgeoud and his 

 troops are twice mentioned as the faviours of the co- 

 lony ; and by the Abbe Reynal they are noticed as a very 

 brave and valiant corps : compliments to which they are 

 with truth entitled. And what cannot but redound to 

 his honour, is, that at the time he impofed fuch hard- 



fhips 



