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 141
... once more at the Wana Creek . Here , after a fatiguing march , I flattered myself with the hope of recruiting my exhausted strength and spirits by a quiet night's rest ; but was once more awoken , though so sound was my sleep , that the ...
... once more at the Wana Creek . Here , after a fatiguing march , I flattered myself with the hope of recruiting my exhausted strength and spirits by a quiet night's rest ; but was once more awoken , though so sound was my sleep , that the ...
Page 172
... once it enters , and once it returns , when it is changed to trash , and its pithy sub- stance into liquid , which is conducted as extracted , through a grooved beam , from the mill to the boiling - house , where it is received into a ...
... once it enters , and once it returns , when it is changed to trash , and its pithy sub- stance into liquid , which is conducted as extracted , through a grooved beam , from the mill to the boiling - house , where it is received into a ...
Page 391
... once more up , accompanied only by the subalterns , to be encamped at the mouth of the Cassipore Creek , in the upper parts of the Cottica river ; the staff officers and captains being ordered soon to follow : and on the 7th we were ...
... once more up , accompanied only by the subalterns , to be encamped at the mouth of the Cassipore Creek , in the upper parts of the Cottica river ; the staff officers and captains being ordered soon to follow : and on the 7th we were ...
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Narrative, of a Five Years' Expedition,: Against the Revolted Negroes of ... John Gabriel Stedman No preview available - 2017 |
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