a yellow substance, while these are reddish; their taste can be
only compared to the finest sort; of peaches. They hay© only one
fault, which is, tfiat they cannot be exported, otherwise I should
send you a quantity; of them, that.you might be able to judge whether
I have spoken too much in.their praise. L É T T ER X.
ÜW the Soil o f Surinam.— A new A ttem p t to cultivate the Land Vy
European Labourers.—The Method ‘o f cultivating it by Negroes.—
How to render the Labour to them more e ysy.^R egulation s f o r their
Work—Meals—-and Rest.—The irprov ision s a t the Plantations.—
Attention paid them when sick.—Their Dress, <§•€.—Dances allowed
them.—Correction.— Newly arrived Negroes trained to a rm — R e flection
on the severe Execution o f the Negroes'.— The increase o f
(freoles or Natives at Surinam.—:Preferencegiven them toiheNegrqes
brought from A frica , and Encouragement to those who bring up
Children.—Care o f pregnant Negroes, and o f both Sèxe's when oM.—
Happiness o f the Negroes depends on tile lia st& r^U lh p^ .— P rd p fm l
f o r increasing it.
M y DEAR S ill, „7 ‘ ' " ' Pardmdftb'o, MayTsi
I n the letter which I wrote to you on :iny ?jaum§y to Bhwd^rg,
1 mbntibndd that the sugar canes which the planters,, cultivate are
not of so large a size as those cultivated by the bush,negroes, but
thht'they yield a better jhioe, r This difference is osyiug to the land
of Surinam, which consists chiefly in a rich black gard eh soil: the new
land is too moist for a good produce of sugar and coffee, therefore
the planters for the firsfe two years use it-for provision-ground, which
the bush negroes '«ever--attend- -to, hut plant thebusugar in npyf
grbund.' About weighty miles from the5eoast, in the- mareante^or
part of the /colony, the land beeoiftes higher, and -is^partly mixed
wiiijsandrinterspersed with rich valleys-* however, for want of"
population, these places are not yet cultivated.