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little more, than just the appearance of regularity and 
order, and until you appoint proper Governors, men of 
learning and spirit &c, and give them handsome salaries, 
and honorary, likewise you can scarce expect the colony 
to thrive. 
When I did myself the honour of writing to you in 
April, I then wrote the Directors and I did so to show 
them I had not acted a double part ; but they have not 
yet been pleased to return me any answer ; they had not 
a right to be displeased (if they are so) at what I wrote 
them ; as I told only the truth and I had a right I think 
to tell them that. 
If a fort should be ordered to be built in Demerary, 
there is no place in my humble opinion so proper as 
upon the left side upon the point as we enter the river. 
Transactions in Rio Berbice and Demerary in December, IJ63. 
Upon the arrival of three men-of-war and some 
merchant-ships the Governor of Berbice, notwith- 
standing the 2 Battallions sent by the States were not 
yet come, thought himself at that juncture strong enough 
to attack the rebels. And he found himself in some 
measure under the necessity of doing so before any 
infectious disorder got among the people. 
A Council of war was therefore called, and it was 
determined to pursue the plan formerly laid down 
betwixt him and Governor s'Gravesande, vizt., to 
detach a body of men to Demerary, from thence to march 
across the country to La Savonette plantation in 
Berbice, where the rebels thought themselves secure, to 
make themselves masters of that plantation, and by that 
means to get the negroes between two fires. 
