iS6 N A R R A T I V E OF A N
CHAP. Next morning, having flept during moft o f the paf-
. XXIV- t fage, I breakfafted at Devil’s Harwar, where I found that
the ilhfortunate pibhart had jtift fet fail for - t i t other
world. In the evening we arrived at the effete Beekfliecf,
as my w fm e s had ma'dè extraordinary .difpattèt/y!^;»^ •*
wattra * all the time to ëncaurage\each otHer.
On the 3d I arrived at the fortrefs- Amftefdam,’ where
I was: entertained with a n ' 'excellent < fifli .dinner,5/and
where I muft again - intreat the readers patience',' while I
attempt to defcribe thé difFérent'fpecies^i^p.phe pafl&ry,
prare-prare, provoji) and curema. ~ Tnfe-pafTary llhabove
two feet long# and weighs -fometime&vtwenty -pottnd's't
thedtead is broad antbfiat7; it;has two^öng barbsy.hn<§ria*
fcalesj and is verydelicate eating. Thé, prare-praro'iis'
about the fame fize, and equally j good. The: prövoft :is.
large, often five feet, arid of a yellowifh colour the flefh
o f this is.lefs agreeable, but the oil it- produces conïés^tb
good account. As for the curema* this is a fpfecies-bf
mullet, fometimes above two feet in length, with rlarge
filvery eyès, and the under jaw; longer than'the upper.
Near this place are alfo found a kind Of
which Madam Merian makes mention; and the fore-patft
o f which exactly refembles thofe o f a fhrimp.
In the evening at fix o’clock I arrivèd once more at
Paramaribo, and found Joanna with her little boy per*
* That is, one of the rowers beating from the reft, to which the others ling a
the water with his oar at every ftroke, in. chorus,
fach a manner that it founds different
fe&ly
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feótly well, after having both been blind for above three c h a p .
weeks; with whom being now invited to lodge, at the . .
houfe of my friend Mr. De Graaf, I was conipletely
happy*
The following day I dined with Colonel Fourgeoud,
who now alfo was as.feund g^ tevQr, and who gave me a
ngggc bidiperent m e^ o f fait proyifions *, but, an, dincom-
mori,ly{ hearty welcome. He acquainted me that two new
companies of fr^ee mulattoes, and two p f free negroes, all
volunteers, had juft been raifed; that the Serameca and
Oysfca; negroes ifspcppjraged - and- favoured the rebels, and
were deceitful rafcals ;■ that a few rebels had been killed in
thepafftwfaica Creek; and that he was in hopes o f root-
jng; - pju.t g iMoMp , :th at Bonny, with his people, were
jg| Jbte Jfoyeft,-; not w itliftanding their late
depredations,which(could not laft much longer; and that
he was fplly determined, i f he fhould lofe- his laft; man,
to/^aljgq ?Ah rebel -iurrenderi or harafs him till he and.
fhpuld bembliged
to (qqk.|the colony. I karped further from him, that a
Frenchman hadjuft efcappd hanging for betraying the
fta,te ;of the fortifications, §tc. to the governor pf Cayenne
; that he had pardoned Qaptain Tulling for his
clandeftine 1 marriage; and that . Lieutenant Colonel de
Borgnes- was j.ufl entered into matrimony with a rich wi**
.^ow^ia/MK. Crayjfpijd.- *■ ■ '& .
' * This he aMoluhly held as thé beft regimen for health,' notwithstanding hè
bad brought three cooks from Europe^
B b a The