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 23
... settlements in this part of Terra Firma , excepting the small colony of Cayenne , belonging to the French , which is ... settlement was demol- ished by the English . Nor were they more successful in one which they founded in 1677 , on ...
... settlements in this part of Terra Firma , excepting the small colony of Cayenne , belonging to the French , which is ... settlement was demol- ished by the English . Nor were they more successful in one which they founded in 1677 , on ...
Page 46
... settlement , called Plantations , were once more seen , some blazing in flames , and others laid in ashes ; while the reeking and mangled bodies of their inhabitants were scattered along the banks of the river Cottica , with their ...
... settlement , called Plantations , were once more seen , some blazing in flames , and others laid in ashes ; while the reeking and mangled bodies of their inhabitants were scattered along the banks of the river Cottica , with their ...
Page 289
... settlement , so disconcerted and panic - struck , that from the present period their depredations were certainly less , as they soon afterwards retired to an inaccessible depth in the forest , where they neither could do any material ...
... settlement , so disconcerted and panic - struck , that from the present period their depredations were certainly less , as they soon afterwards retired to an inaccessible depth in the forest , where they neither could do any material ...
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