C H A P .
III.
defperate negro,-called Zatn Zaïö, who* not having ‘beets
confulted concerning the treaty of peace» had afterwards
put himfelf at the head of a ft rong party;» and now carried
off the whole flock of the detachment, confuting of
arms, ammunition, cheeked linens, canvas cloth, hatchets,
Taws, and cither carpenteE’s tools ; befides fait heef, pork»
fpirits, &c. and kept them as his own private property.
Adoe, on the other- hand, not receiving the prefents at '
the time he expeéted, tod haftily concluding he was only
to he amufed with ^expectation trill a~ reinforcement o f
troops fhould arrive from Europe to fubdue him, renewed
his incurflonsrr; by this'accident therefore the peace:
was immediately broken » cruelties and ravagesi increafed
more than before, and. death and deftruétion. once more
raged throughout the colony.
In 175V this iettlement was ih the utmoft difeefsand
eonfufion; when, incompliance with a Eêqueft of theinha-
hitants, prefented to the States General, Baron Spoke was
fent to Surinam, with fix hundred frefh troops drafted;
from the different regiments in theButeh fervice, and
on their arrival the;memhers of the court were ordered to
fend Governor Mauricius to Europe, to account for his
proceedings j who never returned to the colony» having in
1753 afked and obtained his difmiffion, after having been
honourably acquitted. Baron Spoke» who during the ab~
fence of Mauricius was appointed to officiate as governor,
found every thing in. the greateft diford ér, difunion having
even arifen between tihe inhabitants and their rulers*
to
to which it was highly neceffary to apply the fpeedieft
means of redrefs. This application was indeed made by
the Baron, hut he died the year after, and a general dif*
traélion again took place.
In 1757, the afpeét o f affairs daily becoming worfe,
(during the adminiffration of a Mr. Gromelyn, who now
was governor'of this colony) a new revolt broke out
in the Tempaty- Greek amongft the negroes, owing to
the treatment which they received from their mailers.
This frefh infurreStion indéëd "food became-df the moll
Terious confequence. The new rebels joined themfelves
to fixteen hundred of th e old fugitive negroes already
fettled in eight different villages near Tempaty Greek,
and after repeated battles and fkirmifhes, {he enemy being
moftly well armed, and in their refiftance generally
fuccefsful, the tölonifts faw themfelves once more reduced
to fue for peace with their own Haves, near Tempaty
Greek, as they had done in the year 1749 with the
rebels of Seramica.
During this- laft revolt, -a Captain Mayer, o f the Society
Troops, beifig tried for edwardice by a court martial,'
and found guilty, was ordered to be fhot through the
head; he was accordingly led to the place of execution,
Where, after every preparation for completing the fen*
tence, he was pardoned by the Governor, who not only
lhewed him every civility, but actually preferred him to
the rank óf major.
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