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vernments and therefore left the men at Post Ephraim 
under the charge of the sergeant of Post Aurearis. 
This is a very different thing from leaving a Post upon 
British ground to be garrisoned by a Dutch force. And 
practically both Posts have been for years abandoned. 
There has however been a Post Holder maintained by 
the English at the Chalk Hills, who had more or less 
charge of the Indians ; and the English Governors went 
up there every year, with some state, to distribute annual 
presents to their Indian allies. But no such visits have 
been paid by the Dutch Governors to the opposite side. 
Article No. 2 in the A6t of Capitulation though it 
confirms to the holders of grants of land as made to 
them by Governor FREDERlCEthe right to be considered 
as inhabitants of Berbice yet says nothing about the 
islands in the river and nothing of the Post established 
on the west bank. This Post whatever it may have 
been was of course included in the general surrender of 
the colony with its Forts, Posts, &c. as stated in the 
Act of Capitulation and it has been in the possession of 
the British since 1802. The Post was originally a Mis- 
sion station of the Moravians who gave it the name of 
Ephraim about the year 1758 but it figures in HART- 
SINCK's Map as a Military Post with a flag flying over 
it. It is probably the spot where for years a British Post 
Holder resided and where the British flag used to be 
hoisted by him on the occasion of visitors coming there 
The Post at Orealla has not been a Military Post for 
at least 50 years. In HARTSINCK'S map it is marked 
as a Military Post, but on the large map of Surinam 
published by authority in 1847 it is marked simply as 
an " Indian settlement" and this is its true character. 
