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 32
... fire being applied , both were set in a blaze , and discovered the smallest boats of the enemy as they tried to get up the river through the darkness of the night . Thus discovered , few escaped without damage from the guns of the fort ...
... fire being applied , both were set in a blaze , and discovered the smallest boats of the enemy as they tried to get up the river through the darkness of the night . Thus discovered , few escaped without damage from the guns of the fort ...
Page 135
... fire by the side of it . I lay quietly down next to them on my green mattress , where , in a clear moonshine night and no rain , I fell sound asleep . But about two hours before day - break I awaked , when the fire was out , the moon ...
... fire by the side of it . I lay quietly down next to them on my green mattress , where , in a clear moonshine night and no rain , I fell sound asleep . But about two hours before day - break I awaked , when the fire was out , the moon ...
Page 275
... fires in E , and receives the fire of No. 4 in F , & c . & c . Thus continuing through both lines , till No. 8 has fired in F , when the whole have shifted their stations ; and the same ma- nœuvre is continued with the columns C and D ...
... fires in E , and receives the fire of No. 4 in F , & c . & c . Thus continuing through both lines , till No. 8 has fired in F , when the whole have shifted their stations ; and the same ma- nœuvre is continued with the columns C and D ...
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