6 N A R R A T I V,E;, Q F .A N
CHAP. Fourgeoud, the officers, and the barges with the privates,
XVL From the Hope, the eiiates now began to appear thinner;
'~~!* * f* ahd afterpaffing Goet-AfOeqr^, about t^n or twelve miles
farther upwards, not- a cultivated foot.waste be deep, the
plantations having been all laid in alhes by the rebels in.
J7S7> as I have already mentioned, a frnall place excepted,
juft below Magdenberg, which is, I -think, called, 'the
Jacoby and where a few pegroes are kept to cut timber,
The river above Goet-accord becomes very narrow,
lined on each fide vfith impenetrable feuffi^wbod,
the river Cottica, between DevilVHarwar-and Patamacas
and the Tempatee Creek, which may -fee^oafid^rffd a# the
fojurce of the whole river Gomewina, becomes abb much
narrower. Magdenberg, which -is about a hundred
miles from Paramaribo, was formerly an eftate» but has
now not a veftige o f cultivation left, a poor old orangey-
tree excepted, and is at prefont neither more -or.
than a barren defolate mountain,
Here we found the furface o l the earth in fome places
covered with a kind of ftrata, that had the appearance-of
mother-of-pearl, and lay fcattered in final! fcales, about
the fize o f an Englifh fluffing. In many places o f Surinam
are found the marks of foffils and ores, -as I have
already hinted. Indeed, iron ore is common, and I have
no doubt hut gold and filver mines might be met with i f
the Dutch would be at the expence, and perfevere in
making the difcovery. I have already mentioned the
Marawina diamond, and white and red agate, which, are
often
ofteh feen in the upper parts o f the river Surinam. On c h a p .
this mountain we alfo found the aif Cooler and more pure, XVL
and of courfe more healthy than in any other part of the
colony.
s On the 17th the news reached üs, that the tranfport
Ihip, the Maria Helena, with the remaining two divifions
o f one hundred and twenty men, commanded by Captain
Hamel, had alfo arrived in the river Surinam on the 14th
iflftant. -Thus the- r&inforceitoehts together confifted of
two hundred and forty men,1 and, on the 5th day o f
March, they all. arrived'in heavy barges at Magdenberg,
Where I may now; fafy- that Colonel Fourgeoud’s whole
fofces were affembled.- Thè fame day oh'e hundred negro
ftaves alfo arrived, tbocarry the loads when We fhould
march. One of the hew hdgtoeS- being miffed-from ori
board a military 'barge,< and marks of blood difcovered
in it, the commanding officer, a Mr. Ghatteauview, and
a ïèiitinel, were both put under’ Wn arreft to be tried for
murder. Ori the fame' evehtfuf day.alfo, two of our capl
in s fought a duel, in which one of them received a
Wound in his forehead.
Omthe 13th, a barge With provifions, coming from Paramaribo
(fliocking.to relate1!) foünd the negro that was
îhilîfed bn the 5th at the water’s èdge, lying in the bruih-
wood, with "bis throat eût from ear to ear, but ftill alive,
thb knife having miffed tire wind-pipe. This miferable
apparition o f ikin and bone they took on board, and
2 brought