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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... sick , and leaves the Camp Some Rebels taken · Discourse on the Existence of Mermaids Heavy Rains Disease Famine Misery . · CHAPTER 24 PAGE 321 • Two Volunteer Companies raised , of free Mulattoes and Negroes Description of the ...
... sick , and leaves the Camp Some Rebels taken · Discourse on the Existence of Mermaids Heavy Rains Disease Famine Misery . · CHAPTER 24 PAGE 321 • Two Volunteer Companies raised , of free Mulattoes and Negroes Description of the ...
Page 87
... sick officer and five sick men , besides my other passengers , for whom I had done all that was in my power , but that was very little ; and having stowed the newly - arrived provisions in a proper place , I once more returned to my ...
... sick officer and five sick men , besides my other passengers , for whom I had done all that was in my power , but that was very little ; and having stowed the newly - arrived provisions in a proper place , I once more returned to my ...
Page 131
... sick to Devil's Harwar , he would not so much as allow the boat or ponkee to wait till I had finished a letter , directed to Joanna , for some clean linen ; however , a ranger ( of which corps I by this time was become a remarkable ...
... sick to Devil's Harwar , he would not so much as allow the boat or ponkee to wait till I had finished a letter , directed to Joanna , for some clean linen ; however , a ranger ( of which corps I by this time was become a remarkable ...
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