Note 18 — CHAP. XXIV.

Now Captains Van Geurick and Fredericy, with Serjeant Fowler, were sent on an embassy to the Owca and Sarameca free negroes, if possible to procure their assistance against the rebels, which they always continued to promise (while Colonel Fourgeoud gave them presents) but never yet performed. A few of the other officers still stayed with us gallanting at Paramaribo, amongst whom were Major Medler and Captain Hamell18, who had both been with General Desalve’s regiment, in the colony Berbicè, and previous to that the first was in the Prussian service. It was no small change of appearance for us, who had so little a time before appeared like wild men, now to strut through Paramaribo, dressed like so many French marquees.