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 93
... colour of their body is reddish , and the tail , which is long , is black at the extremity ; but the fore- feet are orange colour . The head is very round , the face milk white , with a round black patch in the middle , in which are the ...
... colour of their body is reddish , and the tail , which is long , is black at the extremity ; but the fore- feet are orange colour . The head is very round , the face milk white , with a round black patch in the middle , in which are the ...
Page 166
... colour ; the tail a lead colour ; the belly white ; the neck reflecting a changeable green and purple ; the iris and feet of this pigeon were red . I have also seen the dwarf pigeons here walking in pairs . They are about the size of an ...
... colour ; the tail a lead colour ; the belly white ; the neck reflecting a changeable green and purple ; the iris and feet of this pigeon were red . I have also seen the dwarf pigeons here walking in pairs . They are about the size of an ...
Page 337
... colour , being crowned with a sea - green tuft , of the same leaves as the mother plant , and which when put in the ground produces another pine - apple in the space of about eighteen months . The delicious taste and flavour of this ...
... colour , being crowned with a sea - green tuft , of the same leaves as the mother plant , and which when put in the ground produces another pine - apple in the space of about eighteen months . The delicious taste and flavour of this ...
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amongst Amsterdam animal appearance arms arrived barge beautiful Berbice bird called camp Captain cassava Chapter Charon Colonel Fourgeoud colony of Surinam colour Comewina command corps Cottica river Devil's Harwar Dutch encamped enemy Europeans extremely feet fire fish forest fruit Governor Guiana hammocks hand head Holland Hope hundred Indians inhabitants instantly Joanna kind La Rochelle leave Madeira wine Magdenberg manner Marawina marched mentioned morning mulatto musquitoes negro slaves negroes never night officers ordered Ouca Paramaribo Patamaca perfectly plantains plantation planters poor pounds sterling pounds weight present Quaco rangers rebel negroes received river Cottica river Surinam round rowed Savannah sent Seramica settlement ships sick skin slaves soldiers species spot Stedman sugar tail thick town of Amsterdam town of Paramaribo tree Vasco Nunes vessels Wana Creek whole woods Zelandia