At this time the ships were riding off Bram’s Point, where Mr. Texier, the deputy governor, came on board to wish us a prosperous voyage; and, after dinner, under a salute of seven guns, together with Captains Small and Fredericy, who had accompanied me hither, he returned back to Paramaribo. [[381]]
[1] See in Chapter XXV. the manner in which I myself discovered a thief. [↑]
[2] In 1554, the coffee berry first came to Constantinople from Arabia.—About the middle of the 16th century it was introduced in London; and in 1728, by Sir Nicholas Laws, it was planted in the island of Jamaica. [↑]
[3] A Mr. Sheffer, already named, who had served with honour from first to last, on the pay of a private soldier, during this painful expedition. [↑]
[4] I should not here omit to mention that in the colony of Surinam all emancipated slaves are under the following restrictions, viz.
They are (if males) bound to help in defending the settlement against all home and foreign enemies.
No emancipated slave, male or female, can ever go to law at all against their former master or mistress. [[373]]
And finally, if any emancipated slave, male or female, dies in the colony, and leaves behind any possessions whatever, in that case one quarter of the property also goes to his former owners, either male or female. [↑]