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 80
... returned to our station . This cooking we continued to perform every day , until the fourteenth , when we rowed down to Barbacoeba . Here we built another shed on the 15th , for the same purpose ; and then , the rain already beating ...
... returned to our station . This cooking we continued to perform every day , until the fourteenth , when we rowed down to Barbacoeba . Here we built another shed on the 15th , for the same purpose ; and then , the rain already beating ...
Page 124
... returned to the rangers ' camp to wait his arrival . I was indeed well ac- quainted with his irreconcileable temper , and at the same time conscious of my own wild and ungovernable disposition , when I thought myself ill treated ; but ...
... returned to the rangers ' camp to wait his arrival . I was indeed well ac- quainted with his irreconcileable temper , and at the same time conscious of my own wild and ungovernable disposition , when I thought myself ill treated ; but ...
Page 146
... returned by our former footsteps , and of consequence approached the pit we had dug yesterday , I was convinced that by this time it must contain clear water . I therefore dispatched my boy Quaco to the front , to fill one of my gallon ...
... returned by our former footsteps , and of consequence approached the pit we had dug yesterday , I was convinced that by this time it must contain clear water . I therefore dispatched my boy Quaco to the front , to fill one of my gallon ...
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