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 160
... morning , and the same hour in the evening , the morning and evening guns are fired by the commanding ship in the harbour ; at the eve- ning signal , all the flags are instantly lowered on board the different vessels ; their bells are ...
... morning , and the same hour in the evening , the morning and evening guns are fired by the commanding ship in the harbour ; at the eve- ning signal , all the flags are instantly lowered on board the different vessels ; their bells are ...
Page 186
... morning , I sent a detachment to Rio - Pirica , which returned about noon with the account of the rebels attacking the estate Merseille , in the river Cottica ; but that they had been beaten back by the plantation slaves , as they had ...
... morning , I sent a detachment to Rio - Pirica , which returned about noon with the account of the rebels attacking the estate Merseille , in the river Cottica ; but that they had been beaten back by the plantation slaves , as they had ...
Page 199
... morning I dispatched another letter to Mr. Lude at Amster- dam , to obtain her manumission , couched much in the same terms as that which I had written to his predecessor Mr. Passalage , only praying for dispatch , as I was now ...
... morning I dispatched another letter to Mr. Lude at Amster- dam , to obtain her manumission , couched much in the same terms as that which I had written to his predecessor Mr. Passalage , only praying for dispatch , as I was now ...
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