practice as long as I remained in the colony. This negro also advised me to walk bare-footed and thinly dressed. "Now is the season, massera," said he, "to use your feet to become hard, by walking on the smooth boards of the vessel; the time may come when you will be obliged to do so for want of shoes, in the midst of thorns and briers, as I have seen some others. Custom," said he, "massera, is second nature; our feet were all made alike. Do so as I advise you; and in the end you will thank old Caramaca. As for being thinly dres sed, a shirt and trowsers is quite sufficient; which not only saves trouble and expence, but the body wants air, as well as it does water: so bathe in both when you have the opportu nity."--From that moment I followed his counsels, to which, besides being cleanly and cool, I in a great measure ascribe the preservation of my life. I now frequently thought on Paramaribo, where I enjoyed all the delicacies of life; while here I was forced to have recourse to many expedients much worse than any savage; yet should I not have repined had any person profited by our sufferings.-But I am forgetting the articles of war, viz, implicitly to obey, and ask. no questions.'

Lieutenant Stromer of the Cerberus, with a serjeant and six privates, were sent sick to the hospital at Devil's Harwar, and the whole party was in a miserable state, having no fresh meat, and the clothes and hammocks rotting from day to day, Captain Stedman's other officer Macdonald fell sick. Having no surgeon, some medicines were daily distributed to the men, who, loading their stomachs with heavy salt provisions, and using no exercise, had sometimes occasion for art to assist nature. But these briny meals of pork and beef, colonel Fourgeoud insisted were much more wholesome food in a tropical country than fresh provisions; for, by a most curious theory, he asserted that the latter corrupted the stomach by the heat, whereas the other underwent a proper digestion, Our author. gives the following outlines of his commander's character.

* Colonel Fourgeoud was impetuous, passionate, self-suffi cient, and revengeful: he was not cruel to individuals, but was a tyrant to the generality, and caused the death of hun

dreds by his sordid avarice and oppression. With all this he was partial, ungrateful, and confused; but a most indefatigable man in bearing hardships and in braving dangers, not exceeded by Columbus himself, which, like a true buccaneer, he sustained with the most heroic courage, patience, and perseverance. Though unconquerably harsh and severe to his officers, he was however not wanting in affability to the private soldiers. He had read, but had no education to assist him in digesting what he read. In short, few men could talk better, but on most occasions few could act worse.'

On the 9th of August, colonel Fourgeoud sent orders for Stedman's party to continue in this forlorn station, accompanying the letter with a present of fish-hooks and tackle, to make up for the deficiency of other refreshments; and, in deed, the salt provisions were daily growing both worse and less.

The men by the constant use of unwholesome food, and the incessant attacks of myriads of insects, were covered with ulcers, and were, with difficulty, restrained from breaking out into a state of mutiny; and, to add to the difficulties of his situation, our author himself was at last attacked with a fever.

'On the 23d,' continues he, I felt myself rather better; and between the fits of the fever shot a couple of large black monkies to make some broth, to supply the want of fresh provisions; but as the destruction of one of these animals was attended with such circumstances, as for ever after had almost deterred me from going a monkey-hunting, I inust beg leave to relate them as they happened:---Seeing me on the side of the river in the canoe, the creature made a halt from skipping after his companions, and being perched on a branch that hung over the water, examined me with attention, and the strongest marks of curiosity: no doubt, taking me for a giant of his own species; while he chattered prodigiously, and kept dancing and shaking the bough on which he rested with incredible strength and agility. At this time I laid my piece to my shoulder, and brought him down from the tree into the stream;---but may I never again be a witness to such a scene! The miserable animal was not dead, but mortally wounded.

I seized him by the tail, and taking it in both my hands to end his torment, I swung him round, and hit his head against the side of the canoe; but the poor creature still continued alive, and looking at me in the most affecting manner that can be conceived, I knew no other means to end this murder, than to hold him under water till he was drowned, while my heart felt sick on his account: for his dying little eyes still continued to follow me with seeming reproach, till their light gradually forsook them, and the wretched animal expired. I felt so much on this occasion, that I could neither taste of him nor his companion, when they were dressed, though I saw that they afforded to some others a delicious repast.

That monkies, especially when young, are no bad food, may easily be accounted for, since they feed on nothing but fruit, nuts, eggs, young birds, &c.; and indeed, in my opinion, all young quadrupeds are eatable: but when one compares those which are killed in the woods to those filthy and disgusting creatures that disgrace the streets, no wonder that they should disgust the least delicate stomach. As for the wild ones, I have eaten them boiled, roasted, and stewed, and found their flesh white, juicy, and good: the only thing that disgusted me was, their hands and their heads, which when dressed, being deprived of the skin, appeared like the hands and the skull of a young infant.

• I had before killed some of a beautiful species, and very delicate when dressed; they are called the keesee-keesee by the inhabitants, are about the size of a rabbit, and most astonishingly nimble. The colour of their body is reddish, and the tail, which is long, is black at the extremity; but the fore-feet are orange colour. The head is very round, the face milk white, with a round black patch in the middle, in which are the mouth and the nostrils; and this disposition of the features give it the appearance of a mask: the eyes are black, and remarkably lively. These monkies we saw daily pass along the sides of the river, skipping from tree to tree, but mostly about mid-day, and in very numerous bodies, regularly following each other like a little army, with their young ones on their backs, not unlike little knapsacks. Their manner of travel

ling is thus the foremost, walks to the extremity of a bough, from, which it bounds to the extremity of one belonging to the next tree, often at a most astonishing distance, and with such wonderful activity and precision, that it never once misses its aim: the others one by one, and even the females, with their little ones on their backs, which stick fast to their mother, follow their leader, and perform the same leap with the greatest seeming facility and safety: they are also remarkable for, climbing up the nebees or natural ropes, with which many, parts of the forest are interwoven. The nebees grow in such a manner as to afford the appearance at first sight of a fleet at anchor. The keesee-keesee is such a beautiful and delicate fond creature, that it is by many people kept as a favourite, when it wears a silver chain. Besides its mimic drolleries, it is remarkable for its good-nature and chirruping voice, which pronounces peeteeco peetceco without intermission. They are easily tamed, and are taken by a strong glue made by the Indians, which is something like our European bird-lime.

'I was, on the 24th, exceedingly ill indeed, not being able to sit up in my hammock, under which the black boy Quaco now lay, crying for his master, and on the following day the poor lad himself fell sick; at the same time I was also obliged to send three men in a fever to Devil's Harwar. As misfortunes often crowd together, I received, at this fatal period, the melancholy account that the officer, Mr. Owen, was also dead, having expired on his passage downwards at the estate Alica, where he was buried. My ensign, Mr. Cottenburg, who had since gone to Paramaribo, died next; and for myself no better was now to be expected. In the height of a burning fever I now lay, forsaken by all my officers and men, without a friend to comfort me, and without assistance of any kind, except what the poor remaining negro slaves could afford me, by boiling a little water to make some tea. In this situation the reader may judge the consolation which was afforded me, the very evening when these accumulated misfortunes seemed to threaten our extinction, by the receipt of an order from the colonel, to come down with both the barges to Devil's Harwar, where I was again to take post on shore, and relieve captain

Örzinga, of the Society service, who with his men was to proceed to La Rochelle in Patamaca, to strengthen the troops already there. Ill as I was, this had such a powerful effect on my spirits, that I immediately ordered the Cerberus down to the mouth of the Cormoetibo creek, where she joined me that evening.

'As I was resting in my hammock, betweeen the paroxysms of my fever, about half way between Cormoetibo and Barbacoeba, while the Charon was floating down, the sentinel called to me that he had seen and challenged something black and moving in the brush-wood on the beach, which gave no answer; but which, from its size, he concluded must be a man. I immediately dropped anchor; and having manned the canoe, ill as I was, I stepped into it, and rowed up to the place mentioned by the sentinel. Here we stepped ashore to reconnoitre, as I suspected it to be no other than a rebel spy, or a straggling party detached by the ay; but one of my slaves, of the name of David, declared it was no negro, but a large amphibious snake, which could not be far from the beach, and I might have an opportunity of shooting it if I pleased. To this, however, I had not the least inclination, from the uncommon size of the creature, from my weakness, and the dif ficulty of getting through the thicket, which seemed impenetrable to the water's edge; and therefore ordered all of them to return on board. The negro then asked me liberty to step forward and shoot it himself, assuring me it could not be at any great distance, and warranting me against all danger.This declaration inspired me with so much pride and emulation, that I determined to take his first advice, and kill it myself; provided he would point it out to me, and be responsible for the hazard, by standing at my side, from which I swore that if he dared to move, I should level the piece at himself, and blow out his own brains.

To this the negro cheerfully agreed; and having loaded my gun with a ball-cartridge, we proceeded; David cutting a path with a bill-hook, and a marine following, with three more loaded firelocks to keep in readiness. We had not gone above twenty yards through mud and water, the negro looking every