G h Ai' P. tween, them, they . paid the demanded contribution
j EL 56,hi81. ftqrling to the French, .principally, in fugar,
negro flaves, 8tc< hayingjbut
colony, i This was no fooner aqcamplifhed, than the
commodore weighed anchor, on the -6th of IJ>,ccembe£,
17-12*' and with his whole fleet left t% fettlement-• of
Surinam.
C H A P ,
1 C H A P. III.
Firjl Revolt q£
■ State, of | the,, polony—rfor^ecl^eaee ognqluded with the
» Reh^~Mutmy}Qf Sailors, Sofdiexst jSte., • ;j
N O fooner. was this.;unfortunate, colony delivered
from "its external and avowed enemies,, than it
was attacked by internal foBs of a more fierce and def-
perate nature. .
The Caribbean and other Indians. had, indeed, in
former times,"'often, diflurbea this fettlemenfe;' but, as I
have already mentioned, a> peace being eftablifhed with
them," after the arrival of Governo|- Somelfdyk in this-
colony, they have inviolably adhered to .it ever (fince,
living in & e gfeaieft harmOnt; s(nd friendship with the.
Europeans.
The revolted negro flaves are the enetnies of whom I
now1 propofe to fpeak, 'who. for; fbiAe timg diflufejd a
generp1 terror over this feftlement, and threatened, its
total lots to the flat es o£ Hoilpiai .
From the earli^R remembrance ‘fon^OTgitive’' negroes-
have taken refuge jin th e woods of Surinam,; but thefe
were ofvery^fmaltcbnfldemtion till about the yeaf 172b,,or-
1^28, when' theiif hoROfe numbers were hi ugh increafed)r
and they haid acquiree! Tarices an2 nteTocks; Which they
had pillaged from the eftatesv ' By the aceelfeon of thefe
arms*.