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Fourgeoud being reached me, unfortunately fell over- CHAP. board into the water, and fank immediately; some XXV. officers, however, the next day coming to the Hope, informed me of the principal contents, viz. that Colonel Fourgeoud, being determined once more to fcour the woods, had ordered me to fend up all my fpare men and provisions, as also the Society troops who were now at Oranjebo, the former to Magdenberg, and the latter to the river Pirica; which I performed, retaining onlytwelve crippled soldiers at the Hope, and as many at Clarenbeek, without either furgeon or medicinesnevertheless, with this small number, I made daily patroles by land and water—they alfo informed me of the death of ensign Van Halm, and that another ffiip with sick was ordered fhortly to fet fail for Holland. . Colonel Fourgeoud, though he himfelf remained Rill at Paramaribo, yet continued attentively to command. Thus, on the 23d, he ordered a detachment of one hundred men to reconnoitre from Magdenberg to the Wana Creek and Marawina river; but they returned without any new discoveries. As I was now likely to be continued at the Hope for some time, I sent for my fheep and poultry, from the estate where I had left them, prefenting Mr. Gourly with a ram and a ewe, as being of a breed fuperior to any in the colony; and I found with joy that my flocks had considerably encreafed in numbers. On the 26th one of my men brought me a snake, which