| Other Arawakan peoples on the South American mainland were also matrilineal, from Surinam to eastern Peru. |
| In 1699, at the age of fifty-two, she embarked for Surinam with her daughter Dorothea Maria. |
| Her life and adventures in Surinam aphra has herself realistically told in that wonderfully vivid narrative, Oroonoko. |
| With the independence of Surinam in 1975, and even earlier, many Surinamese came to Holland to work or study. |
| Part of the treaty was a stipulation that each side would keep the possessions it held on 31 July, so Surinam was again returned to the Dutch. |
| Encouraged to publish her findings, she spared no expense in preparing the original paintings for a volume on Surinam. |
