C,h ap. what,, with their ufual gQod-rhuniiouF, they; were pleafed
to call myf conqu^ft; which, one of thq Xafliea • in,eoni-
7 party affured me, while itwas perhaps cenfured byfome,
was applauded, b,y ^rnany, but IJie beiievedjfin.her. heaff
envied by all.—-A decent .wedding, at which ;many o f our
refpedtablo friends made their appearance, and af,which
I was as happy as any, bridegroom ev;er:,wa§^ concluded
the,;ceremony; with which I fhall beg-leave to conclude
a chapter, which, methipks'T hear many.-readers
whifper, had better never had a beginning. -
E X P E D I T I O N TO S U R IN AM.
C H A P . VI.
Account o f a drej^d^^ecutton^'Plulfpiatlng State o f
\ ^erace~^AnOfficer Jhot
f l SQ‘S B B E ‘general
Alarm rfy tv ef throughout t i c ’Colony.1
N the sift of- May our Lieutenant Colonel Latit*
n j # diely arid^a -ndmbef bf *our officers lay Tick.
Inftead-Of ;g-aiet-y and. diffipatton, difeafe and mortality
how began to ragehmongft g te -and the deviation in*
creafed- from day to dky 'ambng the private men,1 in a
moR alarming proportion. ’ The remains-of the deceafed
officer were interred with I M f f hottWhi^-M^the centre
o f th e 1 Fortr-efe Zefendia, where all eriminals are im*
prilohe-dy isd‘ftdl field-officers buriedi' :5 At this: place t
was not a little fhocked, to fee the eap tiv e reb rfg rb b s
and others! ^ hM n g lh d r chains,i arid roaffing: plMntairia
and- yams- upon the ofMMdead; pre*
Tented m my Tiriagiriatlori, the image- § § I number of
diabolcal* fieiids hi the ihape of African flaves, torment*
mg the fouls of their European perfeeutoriv From- thefe
gloomy manfiohs of defpair, on this day,; - feven captive
negroes, were ‘feledted, who being led by a few foldiers
uv the place o^Oxeeutiori* wMeh- 'k in 'th e Savannah,
Where the failors and foldiers are interred, fix were
anged, and one broken alive upon the rack,-with an iron
H bar;