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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... frequently served up in small wooden tubs of not the most cleanly appearance , and only once a day ; which negligence , however , I am willing to impute to Monsieur Laurant , the colonel's French valet - de - chambre . In short , the ...
... frequently served up in small wooden tubs of not the most cleanly appearance , and only once a day ; which negligence , however , I am willing to impute to Monsieur Laurant , the colonel's French valet - de - chambre . In short , the ...
Page 172
... frequently amounts to twenty or five - and - twenty thousand pounds sterling , exclusive of the value of the ground . But to give the reader a clearer idea of the sugar - cane , which is supposed to be a native of Guiana , I refer him ...
... frequently amounts to twenty or five - and - twenty thousand pounds sterling , exclusive of the value of the ground . But to give the reader a clearer idea of the sugar - cane , which is supposed to be a native of Guiana , I refer him ...
Page 212
... frequently used by the fair inhabitants : it tastes very much like chocolate . A drink they call piworree is a composition of the cassava bread , chewed by the females , and fermented with water , when it has something of the taste of ...
... frequently used by the fair inhabitants : it tastes very much like chocolate . A drink they call piworree is a composition of the cassava bread , chewed by the females , and fermented with water , when it has something of the taste of ...
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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