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been ill treated by him. As h fpedmen of his M g » l
will only obferve, that aU the officers had nqw fu^fifted -
a whole year upon a private foidk?'* allowance, of fait
provUions, a few weeks at P ^ a y i h o only e x c e p t^
This accommodation coft me thirty
already mentioned he kept back our money, and why
Ihonld he not onr allowance ahb, it not ;being the pa^t o f
a good foldier to inqpire^after trifles 1 1 | ;, , : , ;
On t h e i f t of F e b r u a r y
th a t henceforth we fbonld pay .nothing, provided, we could
fa ft. but that if we oould not, ten pounds yearly was tp
pork. - .
On the ad I received mtenigemje that I^eutenaaat .-Pftr
lonel Becquer, fcorning any longer to partake^
geoud’s bounty, had fuddenly given, up the g h # ?hhy
whfohin rotation I became poffeffed ofhisvacapt copapan^
This was fome compenfatiou for fo much prou^e and fatigue.
But to counterbalance this good fortune^
lady, whole hufband had,
ties, now made me
accept; befides, I had been fworn at Highgate. But per^,
filling in my refufal of her favours and golden prefects,
I at lall felt the effects of .a woman’s hatred and revenge.
Her hufband, who had lately been fo much my-friend,
and whofe honour I, in this inllance, fo mrich refpe&etf,
Was fuddenly perverted into a bitter enemy., I bore
th e ir frowns with refignation, confcious of my own reditude,
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tnde, in* riot committing a trelpafs of which too many c h a p .
others wduld hdvb made a boaft. Shortly after, how- XU.,
ever, this'gentleman again became my friend, even more
than before this affair h a p p e n e d , having been perfeaiy
undeceived, • '
Ori the! 6th,; a poor drummer of the Society brought
riae a preferit of fome alRgato, or more properly avogat&
pears and oranges, for having fijpported him, he find, in
Holland ag’firift my- fervent, who had knocked him down.
Thi^ trait of gratitude afforded me more pleafure than
the cooinefs of my late friend had given me pain.—The
avogato pear grows on a tree above forty feet high, and
not unlike a walnut-tree: the fruit, which is about the
fize and colour of a large pear, v iz, a pale green, is the
moll exquifite, in my opinion, of any in the colony, ori
even in the world; the infide is yellow, and the kernel
is- inclofed in ar foft rind like a chefnut. The pulp is fo
falubrious~and nutritious, that it is- often called the ve*-
getable marrow, and is; frequentlyeaten with pepper and
fait: nor can I compare i t to any thing fo well as a peach,
mating in the* mouth in the fame manner^ not fofweet
indeed, "but incomparably more delicious.
The oranges in Surinam are of three different fpecies ;
the four, the bitter, and the fweet, all being originally
iiuported from Spain o r Portugal. The four oranges are
an excellent cure for lores and running ulcers, fo common
in this * dimate, but • painful in the operation; for
which reafon they are only ufed for the negroes, who if
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