0ur youthful officer went into the woods in the condition of Falstaff,"heinously unprovided." Coming from the unbounded luxury of theplantations, he found himself entering "the most horrid and impenetrableforests, where no kind of refreshment was to be had,"--he beingprovisioned only with salt pork and pease. After a wail of sorrow forthis inhuman neglect, he bursts into a gush of gratitude for the privategenerosity which relieved his wants at the last moment by the followinglist of supplies: "24 bottles best claret, 12 ditto Madeira, 12 dittoporter, 12 ditto cider, 12 ditto rum, 2 large loaves black sugar, 2gallons brandy, 6 bottles muscadel, 2 gallons lemon-juice, 2 gallonsground coffee, 2 large Westphalia hams, 2 salted bullocks' tongues, 1bottle Durham mustard, 6 dozen spermaceti candles." The hams and tonguesseem, indeed, rather a poor halfpennyworth to this intolerable deal ofsack; but this instance of Surinam privation in those days may open someglimpse at the colonial standards of comfort. "From this specimen,"moralizes our hero, "the reader will easily perceive, that, if some ofthe inhabitants of Surinam show themselves the disgrace of the creationby their cruelties and brutality, others, by their social feelings,approve themselves an ornament to the human species. With this instanceof virtue and generosity I therefore conclude this chapter."