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Title: 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
Year: 1806 (1800s)
Authors: Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744-1797
Subjects: Slavery -- Suriname Indians of South America -- Guiana Suriname -- Description and travel Suriname -- History To 1803
Publisher: London, J. Johnson, & T. Payne
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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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
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