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has lately left Sinamary to fettle in the district of Makouria; and it is reported in the colony, that he receives supplies from Victor Hugues ;
while
infirm and wretched priests, bending under the â– weight of years, and victims to religious perfection, are rejected by the hofpital of the colony, and left to die without relief in a burning and insections climate.
One of thefe, a man sixty years
of age, afflicted with a hernia, was brought to Rochefort in great pain.
His age and illnefs ought
to have exempted him from deportation, and he demanded the enforcing of the law. anfwered with favage derifion :
But he was
" You may de-
" mand it from the Commandant of Cayenne, " when you shall arrive there."
There at length
he arrived, but in fuch a state as it was impossible to behold without tears;
yet thence he was re-
moved without pity to Conanama, where he was on the point of expiring, when the surgeon of Iracombo, whofe heart was affected by his misfortunes, offered him an
ylum, and rescued him from the
jaws of death. The general result of the foregoing narrative is as follows: First, That of the fixteen perfons deported on board the corvette La Vaillante, eight remained at Sinamary;