EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



like a barrier from all foreign invaders ; (ince all (Iiips 

 whatever miili either be lifted over or dragged through 

 this bank of mud. 



The firii is done by finking two concave veffc;ls, called 

 camels^ which being chained together under the bottom 

 of an Indiaman or man-of-war, of whatever burthen, the 

 water is pumped out of them, when rifing gradually to 

 the furface with their burthen, they carry it to where 

 there is to be found fufiicient depth to keep it afloat. 



The fecond method is pradtifed on fmaller veiTels, and 

 confifts of half a dozen fail boats, called water-inmiakins^ 

 towing them through the mud, which can never be 

 done but when flraight before the wind : at which time 

 not only the flrip itfelf, but the boats that have her in 

 tow, muil crowd all the fail they poffibly can carry. 



On the morning of the 3ifl, having been becalmed all 

 night, a freili breeze at E. again fprung up, when we 

 fired a gun as a fignal, and five or fix .vvater-manakins 

 inftantly came off, by the help of which we v/ere dragged 

 over the Pampus^ not at the rate of fourteen knots an 

 hour, but at that of fourteen hours a knot, iince we did 

 not get clear of it in lefs than three days failing, though 

 not four miles in length : however, I muft confefs, that 

 the laft day \'ve had fcarcely any wind at all. 



During this tedious paflage, it was no bad entertain- 

 ment, to obferve the contrafl between fome newly-arrived 

 Norwegians and us; thofe people fitting upon deck in 



their 



