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 225
... present the reader with a view of that estate , and of the estate Clarenbeek , where still our hospital was kept . This day Colonel Fourgeoud also came up the river , and slept at Wajampibo . On the Iith , we arrived at the plantation ...
... present the reader with a view of that estate , and of the estate Clarenbeek , where still our hospital was kept . This day Colonel Fourgeoud also came up the river , and slept at Wajampibo . On the Iith , we arrived at the plantation ...
Page 386
... present to say , that the Prince of Orange , besides paying his out and homeward passage , and giving him sev- eral presents , sent him back to Surinam dressed in a suit of blue and scarlet , trimmed over with broad gold lace ; on his ...
... present to say , that the Prince of Orange , besides paying his out and homeward passage , and giving him sev- eral presents , sent him back to Surinam dressed in a suit of blue and scarlet , trimmed over with broad gold lace ; on his ...
Page 461
... present . Probably an allusion to the callebash , a round fruit of the Crescentia Cujete ( L. ) out of which the Negroes made cups and utensils for eating and drinking ; could mean a " cup " that had gone from hand to hand . 160. Sour ...
... present . Probably an allusion to the callebash , a round fruit of the Crescentia Cujete ( L. ) out of which the Negroes made cups and utensils for eating and drinking ; could mean a " cup " that had gone from hand to hand . 160. Sour ...
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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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