2l8 N A R R A T I V E OF AN
t H A P. then upon the eve of breaking out into open violence,
, x; nothing could furpafs the warm and cordial Mendfhip
which thefe gentlemen poflefled, not only for me, but
for every individual that bore a British name, or had
any connexion with that Aland'; profeffing, that they
ftill retained the greateft regard for every thing in Britain,
but its adminiftration. I accepted Of their very
polite propofal; after WhiA,ikaving received a letter
from Mr. Kennedy, to be delivered to one of the militia
captains, a Mr. N. Reeder, in the river Comewina, with
orders to fend me farther up in a proper te n t-b o a ta n d
having arranged matters in fueh a .manner a t home," that
neither Colonel Fourgeoud nor the .cock-reaches could
injure me, I fliook hands with my Mulatta, andsatiCpsin
the evening repaired once more; to th e water-fide, ef-
eorted by toy Englilh and Acmerican Mends, where, hawing
drank a bowl of punch, we feparated. I then departed
for my Ration, ihjey having hoifted the colours ©n board
all their veflels in the road, and at theboads jgoing loff
fainted me with three cheers, to my great fatrsfaCtion, and
the mortification of the gaping multitude foy which iwse
were Surrounded. We loon «Owed ibeydnd the View o f
Faramaribp.
Being arrived a tth e fortress o f New Amfterdam, we
were obliged to flop for the ueturn ©f the tide, totrow u p
the fiver Come win a. In this interval, I was genteelly
entertained with a fupper by the Society officers quartered
there; but at twelve o’clock we got jaboard, and
8 having
having rowed all night, I breakfasted with Captain
MacneyfirwHo? was. one of General Spork’s captains in
1:75c; after, which we once moreifet- out, and arrived at
the plantation Charlottenburgb, where . I delivered Mr.
Kennedy’s letter to Mr. Reeder, who promifed next morning
to affift me; So much incenfed'Was I at the ufage I
had- met with at Paramaribo, and fo well pleafed with the
Englifh Sailors, that I ordered the tars a dinner,of twelve
| roaffced ducks, and gave them thirty-fix bottles of claret,
being my-whole Stock, befides a guinea. When the tide
ebbed they took their leave, and rowed down Co their
veijfels,' as well pleafed^ and as drunk as wine or Strong
Spirits cduld make them.
I* now purfued my voyage, upwards as far as the eftatc!
Mondefir ;; afterwards, havirtg . viewed the ruins of the
three eft^tes, Zuzingheyd> Peru, and L’Eiiperance* whichf
had: been burnt when I commanded atDeviPs Harwar,
1 arrived at Repair. Here one of the overifiers gave me
am acchuat of hill nafaculous efcape from: the rebels,
Which I Shall relate in his- own words.—« The rebels*
Sir,” faid he, « had already -furroundedi the dwelfingr
houfe in wbichl was, before I knew of their being iri’
the plantation^ and were employed in Jetting fire to the
# u r carriers o f it, fo that to run out of doors: was ruSh-
ihg on certain death. In this dilemma I fled to the
garret, where I laid myfelf flat upon one of the beams,-
ih hopes of their difperfing foon, and that I might eflfebt;