CHAP. “ I Rave a fpirit to accept o f you not. as rhy flave,’but moire
XIX‘ “ as my companion you fhall have ahoufe built in my
“ orange-garden, with my-own (laves to attend you, till
m Providence (half call me away, /When1 you lllàîl be pe;r~:
“ --féStlyi free-., as: indeed'!you now-are the moment : you.
*8 wifh- to ■ poiîèfs your nÿanumifîion ; and this cyou claim.
a both by your extraction" "and your icohdiibb*'." On
theft terms, aiid On ho ; other;,.I 'accepted'-of-the money
onjthe :Sth, and harrying ltm my hat to Mr.
I . laid it ©i> bis feblê* (foma®ding- a^£teiëi|p - iff full {ail'd
joanha was -transferred- from the wîfotched éftafo*-Fati-
ôùtôbéPg, to "the JïroteÆien of the firft woman perhaps in
all the Ühtèh Wèft-indie§ÿ i f hot ih jhd vfofld;
which. fhe thanked me with a-ftdkthat eOftM-hoFy -be-é*'-’
prcâèd by the CGhNîrENAhfch'hF au
Mr. de Graav, on counting themoney,-addrefïMmea#
fih^foïlowiiig fefrhsff~E-.e*i Sied'mari, t^olhhhdfed .*ffofSi|§î-éîf
this fum belong to me as: ad'mini fir at of. .Permit the
#< allô to have a fmall (hare in this happy -eVenf, by" éé f
u accepting this dividend, as l fhab find myfelf amply
& paid h y the pleafure of having been infif umental an
° bringing about what feenas lb much to' conttihüft1 to
“ the enjoyment o f two defervirig people.*
Having thanked my difihterefted friend with an affectionate
(hake by the haiid, I immediately returned the
* I have already mentioned that Joanna moft diftinguilhed people on the eoaft of
was by. hkthi a gentleman’s.daughter from Africa.
Holland ; and her mother’s family were
two hundred florins to Mrs. Godefroy, and all were CHap.
■ | XIX#
happy.| I muft not omit, as a farther proof o f Mrs. Gode-
frOy’s humane vhar-abter, that; on hearing-of the dejected
fit nation of,-the lick at Magdenherg, fhe at this time font
them a prefen t of: a whole;barge-load of fruit, vegetables,:
arid refreshments o f every kind that the colony
could, afford, for their relief. -
Gri the yfii of April, foatteis-being thus far fettled, I
Wrote a letter to Mi. Ludjgpt Am fiord am,-.to give h im intelligence,
and t© thank him for having parted with the
majl\valfiaple;.property of his efiatc; and my ande being
now pretty rwell recovered, I. alfoymofe- M GoIonel.Four-
geoud, that I fho.uld have the honour' to- <-join him in a
few days.-. This letter I directed to Farbacoeba,' for there
he frill continued,;while th e -intrepid and abkive militia
captain, Stoetemanr, was beatiogJup the1 woods With a few
rangers at another quarter,' and. who this day font in
four ©aptive rebel negroes’ to Paramaribo *.
On the ioth, finding myfelf fuffciently recovered, and
ready once yoore to enter the foreff, I bade farewell to my
fweet family and friends, leaving the firft ftill at Mr. de la
Mare’s, at their requeft; and cheerfully fet off with a tent-
boat on my fifth campaign, in the hopes o f accompanying
Fourgeoud; who, having affembled all his remaining
forces, and made the necefiary arrangements to attack
* It is a maxim with the rangers to they fend ia alive fifty florins; alfo- foe
chop off the right hand, of every rebel finding a town or village one thoufend
negro they kill, for which they,receive florins Hollands,
twenty-five florins; and for every one