C H A P. friend Gachelieu for ray com pan ion and voucher, who ga ve
XIV- me theufeof his tilt-barge with .eight oars for the purpofe;.
On our auivàl I expeftedx to fee Fourgeoud raging
with refentment, that he would put me under an arreft,
and ailc an explanation of our laft correfpondence. But
I dreaded not the woi-ft that he could do, after the many
trials to ruin me which he had already put in execution,
and death itfelf was almoft preferable td his cruelty.
- Monfieur de Gachelieu and I, however, were both dif-
. appointed. He .not only took us politely by the hand,
but folicited-us to dine with him, as If nothing had happened.
But .this affectation I defpifed, and refufed to, accept
of his .invitation with contempt j in which I i f as-
followed by the French planter. Whenj in my turn,-1
enquired for the caufe o f his refuting my requeïf, and
fending me fo ftrange a letter, this was the' MrifWer—»
That thirty or forty of the Ouca negfôès, who were
,our allies by treaty, had deceived him,In doing nothing
while they had been in the woods, .and during the1 ffihe
he had been at Paramaribo : that he was in confequehce
determined t a pufh on the war With doublb wigohr-
on which account he had hot only forbidden me to go
to town, but had fince ordered even all the lick officers
to come up -and to follow the .enemy, while they had
strength or breath remaining, not fo much as leaving
.one at Paramaribo to guard the colours and the re-
tgiment’s cheft, which had both been left to the care of
y a quarter-
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a quarter-mafter.T—This, indeed, Was literally the fact; ch a p .
but 'to this he might fafely, and without hurting his , ,
confcience, have addeQ^ the inveteracy of his difpofition,
with which he had determined to perfecute me and.
feme Others'to annihilation. I ought to mention, that
it Was not till about this time'that‘he iffiied orders to be
obferved on a march, and that previous to this every
thing was performed in*perfect hurry and confufion,
Which indeed even afterwards wastoo frequently the cafe. *
Having now been near two/taontlis on the eftate Eg-
mdnd, where I could not!recover,' arid not being permitted-
Paramaribo, I preferred returning back agaiS^B*'
take the command at theHbfJe; where'haviog*!fehtertained *
Monlleitr de Gachelieu in thfe befenianner I was1 able, this
gentleman In the evening returned to his plantation.
At* the Hope I found Uny.friend Mr. Heneman (who1
was now made ® captain)'very lick,, with feveral Others 1
All thefe, as well as unyfelf, were left without a furgeon,
medicines,-or money ; •while, as I ftated •'before,. the-
many hogfheads of wine font from Amfterdam, together
with fcores of kegs containing- preferved vegetables, and
other frefh provilions, were for ever kept invisible from the
poor, emaciated, and languilhing troops, for whom they
had certainly been intended by that city. ' I indeed here
made one more attempt to recover our property, but to no
purpofe; money, medicines, wine, and refrelhments, were
all kept back. Thus did we continue to pine and lofe
ftrength, infread of gaining it, I mean the great eft part
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