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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ... removed, therefore, further upwards in the river, and succeeded in gaining possession of a small island at the junction of the Mazaruni and Cuyuni, called Kyk-overal, from the circumstance that it afforded a view of the three rivers Cuyuni, Mazaruni, and Essequibo. In 1613 the colony of Zealanders at the banks of the Essequibo was reported to be in a flourishing condition; and eight years afterwards, namely in 1621, the government undertook to supply the colonists with negro slaves from Africa. In 1626, van Peere, who with his companions had been driven from the Orinoco, commenced to settle at the banks of the river Berbice, and cleared a considerable extent of land between the Berbice and Corentyn rivers. In 1634, thirty passengers from West Friesland arrived at the island Mecoria between the rivers Cayenne and Wya, who settled and commenced cultivating tobacco and cotton. They found here some settlers from the Netherlands, and discovered on a rising ground the ruins of a French castle, which they repaired for their own protection. The English had commenced colonization about the same time at the great Coma, now Surinam river, sixty miles up, having been expelled from the little Coma, the present Comowini, by the Caribi Indians. They rebuilt here a large Indian village called Paramaribo, which had been destroyed by the natives at their approach. This village was commanded by Captain Marshall, with about sixty settlers; but being constantly annoyed by the natives, and the climate proving unhealthy, they abandoned it afterwards. About 1640 the French possessed themselves of the present river Surinam, and inhabited Paramaribo. The same reasons which induced the former settlers to abandon it, obliged likewise the French to leave their new colony, and to settle..

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