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 71
... kind , with rumpled inverted feathers , seems natural to Guiana , being reared in the inland parts of the country by the Indians or natives . The turkeys are very fine , and so are the geese , but the ducks are excellent , being of the ...
... kind , with rumpled inverted feathers , seems natural to Guiana , being reared in the inland parts of the country by the Indians or natives . The turkeys are very fine , and so are the geese , but the ducks are excellent , being of the ...
Page 89
... kind of underwood , that we could scarcely put our new project in execution ; till at last , my negroes having made a temporary kind of bridge , to step from the yawl upon a small speck of dry ground , and having formed a slight shed of ...
... kind of underwood , that we could scarcely put our new project in execution ; till at last , my negroes having made a temporary kind of bridge , to step from the yawl upon a small speck of dry ground , and having formed a slight shed of ...
Page 391
... kind of fruit called in Surinam pomme de canelle , or cinnamon - apple : it grows on a shrub in most gardens at Paramaribo , and has something the appear- ance of a young artichoke , being covered with a kind of green scales . The skin ...
... kind of fruit called in Surinam pomme de canelle , or cinnamon - apple : it grows on a shrub in most gardens at Paramaribo , and has something the appear- ance of a young artichoke , being covered with a kind of green scales . The skin ...
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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