Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam: In Guiana on the Wild Coast of South America, from the Years 1772 to 1777 ...University of Massachusetts Press, 1972 - 480 pages |
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Page 51
... Beautiful Female Slave The Manner of Travelling in Surinam The Colonel Explores the Situation of the Rivers Barbarity of a Planter Wretched Treatment of some Sailors . AVING in the first chapters given some account of our incorporation ...
... Beautiful Female Slave The Manner of Travelling in Surinam The Colonel Explores the Situation of the Rivers Barbarity of a Planter Wretched Treatment of some Sailors . AVING in the first chapters given some account of our incorporation ...
Page 81
... beautiful yellow . By a water - patrol from the Cerberus I received intelligence this evening , that the men began to be sickly ; and on the following day I was informed , that on the spot where we had dressed our victuals , in the ...
... beautiful yellow . By a water - patrol from the Cerberus I received intelligence this evening , that the men began to be sickly ; and on the following day I was informed , that on the spot where we had dressed our victuals , in the ...
Page 231
... beautiful purple colour and an agreeable smell , and is much esteemed on account of its weight and durability . The iron - wood - tree , so called from the gravity and permanent quality of its timber , grows to about sixty feet in ...
... beautiful purple colour and an agreeable smell , and is much esteemed on account of its weight and durability . The iron - wood - tree , so called from the gravity and permanent quality of its timber , grows to about sixty feet in ...
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Narrative, of a Five Years' Expedition,: Against the Revolted Negroes of ... John Gabriel Stedman No preview available - 2017 |
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