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 72
... feet , and by others is asserted to be not less than four or five times as much . * When this animal is touched by the hand , or any rod of metal or hard wood , it communicates a shock , the impulse of which produces the same effect as ...
... feet , and by others is asserted to be not less than four or five times as much . * When this animal is touched by the hand , or any rod of metal or hard wood , it communicates a shock , the impulse of which produces the same effect as ...
Page 83
... feet . It was taken in the river Indus , but not till it had received on many parts of its body several three - pound balls , many of which could not penetrate , or produce the least effect against his scales . As I cannot so easily ...
... feet . It was taken in the river Indus , but not till it had received on many parts of its body several three - pound balls , many of which could not penetrate , or produce the least effect against his scales . As I cannot so easily ...
Page 122
... feet in length , of a reddish colour , and marked all over with hexangular figures . Its eyes are small , the tail long and thick at the root , and tapering gradually like a carrot towards the point , and is covered over like the body ...
... feet in length , of a reddish colour , and marked all over with hexangular figures . Its eyes are small , the tail long and thick at the root , and tapering gradually like a carrot towards the point , and is covered over like the body ...
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amongst animal appearance arms arrived barge beautiful Berbice bird called camp canoe Captain cassava Chapter Charon Colonel Fourgeoud colour command Cormoetibo Creek Devil's Harwar Dutch enemy Europeans expence extremely feet fire fish forest fruit Governor Guiana hammocks hands head Hope hundred Indians inhabitants instantly Joanna kind La Rochelle leave Lolkens Madeira wine Magdenberg manner Marawina marched morning mouth mulatto musquitoes negro slaves negroes never night o'clock occasion officers orange colour ordered Oronoque Ouca Patamaca perfectly Pirica 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 shot sick situation slaves Society troops soldiers Somelsdyk species spot sugar tail thick town of Amsterdam town of Paramaribo tree vessels Wana Creek whole woods wound Zelandia