to Wood and Water but
they gave no Liberty in Ten or Twelve Dayes and then Ordered that the
English Men should bring Wood and Water on Board but the Thing was
Attended with so much Dificulty that We were Obliged to Sell some
small Plunder on board of Our Own Vessell to Defray our Charges and
also that while We were at Surranam Three of Our Slaves Ran away from
Us and that the Governour keept and Detained them from us then we
Sailed for Barbadoes in Order to Carreen and Refitt Our Vessell and
that when We came to Sea we found Five Men and no more on Board who
talked Dutch and were dressed in Sailors Apparel who did their Duty as
Such and Said that they belonged to Dutch Vessells in Surranam and
when we arrived at Barbadoes We Landed our Prize Goods and Slaves
where they were Condemned and Sold at a Publick Vendue.

BEN MUNRO.
WM. KIPP.

Bristol ss: BRISTOL Apr. 23d 1746.

[Footnote 2: Cayenne the chief town of French Guiana. For the
pronunciation, see doc. no. 63, note 20.]

[Footnote 3: Oyapoc, on a river of the same name, lies some 80 miles
to the southeast of Cayenne, toward the Brazilian boundary.]

[Footnote 4: Macouria, a lady's plantation a little northwest of
Cayenne. Father Fauque, _ubi sup._, pp. 519-520.]

[Footnote 5: Father Fauque was not a friar, but a Jesuit.]

[Footnote 6: M. d'Orvilliers, father of the celebrated admiral of that
name. La Condamine, returning by way of the Amazon and of Oyapoc from
his celebrated geodetic expedition to Peru, had spent five months with
him at Cayenne earlier in this year. _Relation Abregee_, pp. 209-214.]

[Footnote 7: The Dutch then possessed both what is now Dutch and what
is now British Guiana. In 1744 their possessions constituted three
colonies, Surinam, Berbice, and Essequebo, of which Surinam, the
present Dutch Guiana, was the most important. The fort spoken of was
at the capital, Paramaribo.]

[Footnote 8: Jan Jacob Mauricius, governor of Surinam 1742-1751; see
account of him in Harris and de Villiers, _Storm van 's Gravesande_,
II. 538-539.]

Personally appeared the above named Benj'n Munro and Will'm Kipp,
(being bound to Sea), and made Oath to the truth of the above written
evidence: taken in Perpetuam Rei Memoriam before us two of his Majs.
Justices of the peace in and for the County of Bristol:[9] Quorum
Unus,

JONA: WOODBURY.
JOSEPH RUSSELL.

[Footnote 9: At this date a county of Massachusetts. With this
narrative we can compare Captain P