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CHAP, their fliirts, and wiping off the perfpiration, while wc 



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were ftrutting in great coats and fur caps, like fo many 

 MufcoviteSj to keep us from the cold. 



Having at this time received a conliderable prefent of 

 refrefliments, fent by the city of Amfterdam to the de- 

 liverers of their favourite colony, and being fo near re- 

 viii ting their old friends and acquaintances, all on board 

 were in the highefl: flow of fpirits, and exulting with 

 . gladnefs — excepting f?;?^' / — from wdiofe mind every hap- 

 : pinefs was baniflied. 



I mufl; here flill relate the following lingular circum- 

 ■ilance : A man-of-war's boat coming alongfide the Hoi- 

 landla^ the officer and crew^ no fooner entered on board, 

 than one of them., vrithout fpeaking, ran up aloft, with a 

 knife in liis teeth, to cut dozvn the pennant. At this time 

 Lieutenant Colonel Seyburg, prefenting a mufquet, and 

 fwearing he would flioot him out of the rigging, the poor 

 ■fellow came down by the back-flays like a lliot, to our 

 great entertainment ; next, having explained to him that 

 'both veffeis had "been put in commiffion by the Prince of 

 Orange, the amazed lieutenant made a handfome apo- 

 logy, and left the fliip. 



On the 3d of June, every thing being in readinefs, the 

 troops were put on board fix lighters, appointed to tranf- 

 port them to Bois-k-Duc^ in which town they were 

 ■ next to be compleated, and do the duty as part of the gar- 

 rifon. On leaving the veffcls we w^ere once more fainted 



with 



