. Narrative of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America; from the year 1772, to 1777: elucidating the history of that country, and describing its productions ... with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & negroes of Guinea. ay of August, 1 obtainedmy free dismission, having requested it, immediatelyafter my debarkation, from the Prince of Orange, whoat the same time honoured me with a fresh Captainscommission in the Honourable General Stuarts regiment,which I had left in September 1772; while from thatdate to this very da
. Narrative of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America; from the year 1772, to 1777: elucidating the history of that country, and describing its productions ... with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & negroes of Guinea. ay of August, 1 obtainedmy free dismission, having requested it, immediatelyafter my debarkation, from the Prince of Orange, whoat the same time honoured me with a fresh Captainscommission in the Honourable General Stuarts regiment,which I had left in September 1772; while from thatdate to this very day my full pay had amounted to littlemore than four hundred and fifty pounds sterling, havingregularly been stopped out of this sum ten pounds perannum for the putrid beef, pork, rusk-bread, and hardpease, that so miraculously had kept soul and body toge-ther. Let me not, however, be considered as wishing to casta reflection on the Dutch nation in general, who indeedomitted nothing for our preservation and encouragementduring this long and painful service: a people whosevirtues have been for ages as conspicuous as their valour—one man alone was the cause of all our sufferings. Having now exchanged my blue coat for a scarlet one,bought a very handsome horse, and put Quaco in a bril-liant. r. X~ // /?//// . /////////?, /^v/ /// . ////f,/ ,)\ - //u/vrc/ l,i:ii,i,n, J)i,rf1i;i)-!, In- ,.(.lr„iil. Oilinli In EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 409 liant livery, I for the last time entertained my shipmates,with whom, without exception, I drank an eveilastingfriendship: then taking my final farewell of them all, Ithe next morning set out to rejoin the old Scotch regi-ment, where I Avas received with the strongest marks ofjoy and unfeigned friendship by the corps. Going now to take my leave of Surinam, after all thehorrors and cruelties with which I must have hurt boththe eye and the heart of the feeling reader, I Avill closethe scene with an emblematical picture of Europe
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