« Eas'd of hér load, fubje&ipn grows more light,
« And Poverty looks cheerful in thy fights-
« Thou mak’ft the gloomy face of nature gay, ^
« Giv’ft beauty to the fuix, and pteafure tö thè day.
.The hoftages and chief officers of both the above-
mentioned negro cohorts, on their arrival at Paramaribo,
-were entertained, at the governor's own table,
having p-evionfly paraded in hate through the town,
accompanied by his excellency | « »
Carriage*. _ _
By their capitulation with the Dutch, the above Ouca
and Sentmica rebels maft yearly receive, as I have mentioned,
a quantity of arms and ammunition from the
colony, for which the Europeans have received m
return the negroes’ promifes of being their faithful
allies, to deliver up ah their d e f e r s , for • which they
to receive proper premiums, never to appear armed
at Paramaribo above five or fix at a time, ahd alfo to
keep their fettlement at a proper diftance from the town
and plantations t the Seranalea negroes at the river
Seramica, and thofe of the Ouca negroes at the Jocka-
ereek, near the river Marawma, where ©ne or two
white men, called pofi-holder^ were to refide among
them,in. the quality of envoys. _
Both thefe tribes ktfere- fi^pdfed, t t » 1 fPeak
of, to amount in all to three tfioufahd, and but a few years
after, by thofe that were fent to vifit their fettlements
(ineluding wives and children) they were computed to-
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he not lefs. than fifteen or twenty thoufand. They are
already become overhearing and even infolent, brandifh-
ing thek^lver.-headed canes in. defiance of the inhabitants,
and forcing from them liquors, and very often
moneys and reminding them how qrnflly their anqefiors
had murdered their parents and their hufbands.
From theCe ckcumfianees, and their „numbers increaf-
ing from daydoday,; I muft conclude, that fhould the
peace be ever broken, thefe new- allies will become the
Hioft- dreadful foes that ever the colony of Surinam can
have to contend-.with.
In 1763 the town of Paramaribo would have been
burnt down to the ground, had it not been prevented
by the courage,;and ,intrepidity .of;,the' failorsj who/!at
the hazard of their fives, Without other affiftance, prevented,
a general conflagration.
About this time a mutiny broke out on board tike
outward-bound Eaft Indiaman, Neimburgh, commanded
by Captain Ketjell. The crew, confifting chiefly of
French and German deferters, who had been kidnapped
in Holland, rpfe in arms againfi their fiiperiors, and
having murdered .moft of the officers and warrant
officers, w|iite: others were put in chains, carried the
vefiel to the Brazils, there, thé ringleaders went on
fhore, and being engaged in riot and difputation foon
difeovered what they were to the Portuguefe governor,
in confequepce, of which they were all taken into cuf-
tody, but their accomplices on hoard fufpe&ing what
had