The Colony of Surinam. 39 
do not wish nor intend to make comparisons, but I ven- 
ture to say that there is in the foregoing some matter 
for reflection. The same causes are everywhere invari- 
ably leading to the same results. The cure of existing 
social evils is practicable. The political and judicial 
history of Surinam, which I have endeavoured, in the 
preceding pages, to lay before English readers, if I may 
have any, is there to prove that the remedies are 
within reach. 
Georgetown, 1885. 
