394 N A R R A T I V E OF AN 



CHAP, commiflion in the Honourable General Stuart's regiment, 

 _ ' . ■ which I had left in September 1772 ; while from that 

 date to this very day my full pay had amounted to little 

 more than four hundred and fifty pounds fterling, hav- 

 ing regularly been Hopped out of this fum. ten pounds per 

 annum for the putrid beef, pork, rufk-bread, and hard 

 peafe, that fo miraculoufly had kept foul and body toge- 

 ther. ' .' 



Let me not, however, be confidered as wifhing to caft 

 a refledlion on the Dutch nation in general, who indeed 

 omitted nothing for out prefervation and encouragement 

 during this long and painful fervice : a people whofe 

 virtues have been for ages as confpicuous as their valour 

 ^one man alone was the caufe of all our fufFerings. 



Having now exchanged my blue coat for a fcarlet one, 

 bought a very handfome horfe, and put Quaco in a bril- 

 liant livery, I for the laft time entertained my fliip-mates, 

 with whom, without exception, I drank an everlafting 

 friendfhip : then taking my final farewell of them all, I 

 the next morning fet out to rejoin the old Scotch regi- 

 ment, where I was received with the ftrongefl marks of 

 joy and unfeigned friendfhip by the corps. 



Going now to take my leave of Surinam, after all the 

 horrors and cruelties with which I mufl have hurt both 

 the eye and the heart of the feeling reader, I will clofe 

 the fcene with an emblematical picture of Europe /up- 

 ported by Africa and America^ accompanied by an ardent 

 ivifli-that in the friendly manner as they are reprefented, 



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