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munition of War, will be surrendered to his Britannic Majesty's Forces 
on the capitulation offered, and the following additional articles." 
And one of these additional articles is as follows — 
Article 4. The Troops of His Britannic Majesty shall garrison 
all existing Island Posts for the protection of the Colony against insur- 
rection of the Negroes ; and as many more Posts shall be created for 
that purpose as in future may be deemed necessary. 
The object of this proposed article appears to be to 
secure the safety of the colony internally by obtaining 
a pledge from the captors that they would keep up such 
Posts as the one on the Corentyne which they in their 
answer promised to do. What the Dutch asked was, 
not that the Post should be left in their possession, but 
that the English should garrison it. 
There may have been such a Post on the West bank 
of the Corentyne River but there is none now and no 
traces oi any fortifications. The one alluded to in the 
deed of arrangement of 1800 is probably the one marked 
in an old map of 1770, Buyten Post van de Corentyn — 
Ephraim — and immediately opposite on the side of the 
river is another Post marked " Aurearis.'' 
We learn from HARTSINCK whose History of Guiana 
was published in 1770 that there was on the " Weder- 
zyde" of the river a Post of ten or twelve men placed 
under one sergeant. 
One Post he says was called Aurearis {Anglice, Orealla) 
and the other Ephraim ; according to the map, Post 
Ephraim is on the British side and Post Aurearis is on 
the Dutch. 
It is quite reasonable to suppose that the two British 
Governors in 1800 when making a joint arrangement of 
the affairs cf the two colonies would not think it worth 
while to have these two petty posts under different go- 
