EXPEDITION
TO
SURINAM.
woods, thou pleasing gloomy forest, pregnant with so many wonders, and fo many plagues, and which, in the opinion of fo many sufferers, even surpassed the ten plagues of Egypt! * ■
“ I
have fent among you the pestilence after the
“ manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword—
“ I
have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your
“ nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, faith the Lord."
The boat being shoved off, Colonel Fourgeoud now declared to us, that having ranfacked the forest in every direction, and driven the rebels over the Marawina in Cayenne, he was determined no more to return to the woods, but in a few weeks to draw the long and painful expedition to a conclusion. Now, reader, it, remains with you to acknowledge that I have not led you about the bush, but through it, with indefatigable perfeverance : the more fo, when it is to be considered that in the middle of the above hurry and diftrefs, under which so many have funk, I have often been deprived of pen, ink, and paper to make proper annotations ; which last defect I have even more than once fupplied by writing with a pencil on my cartridges, or on a bleached bone: had this not been unavoidably the cafe, more accuracy and many more remarks might with * Should' It be remarked that during this expedition Come unchristian-like expressions have escaped, let it be at the
geons and even cooks, though both of little ufe, had been provided, nothing like
fame time recollected, that white fur-
the day we failed from the Texel.
a parson was ever feen amongst us, from
justice
341 CHAP. XXVIII.