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 110
... tail is like a wedge , and con- sists of a few very long and strait feathers . The back of this bird , from the head ( the top of which is a sea - green ) to the extremity of the tail , is a most beautiful azure blue , and , underneath ...
... tail is like a wedge , and con- sists of a few very long and strait feathers . The back of this bird , from the head ( the top of which is a sea - green ) to the extremity of the tail , is a most beautiful azure blue , and , underneath ...
Page 122
... tail above three feet in length , of a reddish colour , and marked all over with hexangular figures . Its eyes are small , the tail long and thick at the root , and tapering gradually like a carrot towards the point , and is covered ...
... tail above three feet in length , of a reddish colour , and marked all over with hexangular figures . Its eyes are small , the tail long and thick at the root , and tapering gradually like a carrot towards the point , and is covered ...
Page 123
... tail excepted . Chapter These prickles are about three inches long , yellow at the root , a dark chestnut colour in the middle , and white at the points ; they are extremely sharp , highly polished , and moveable , serving for the ...
... tail excepted . Chapter These prickles are about three inches long , yellow at the root , a dark chestnut colour in the middle , and white at the points ; they are extremely sharp , highly polished , and moveable , serving for the ...
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amongst animal appearance arms arrived barge beautiful Berbice bird called camp canoe Captain cassava Chapter Charon Colonel Fourgeoud colour command Cormoetibo Creek Devil's Harwar Dutch enemy Europeans expence extremely feet fire fish forest fruit Governor Guiana hammocks hands head Hope hundred Indians inhabitants instantly Joanna kind La Rochelle leave Lolkens Madeira wine Magdenberg manner Marawina marched morning mouth mulatto musquitoes negro slaves negroes never night o'clock occasion officers orange colour ordered Oronoque Ouca Patamaca perfectly Pirica plantains plantation planters poor pounds sterling pounds weight present Quaco rangers rebel negroes received river Cottica river Surinam round rowed Savannah sent Seramica settlement ships shot sick situation slaves Society troops soldiers Somelsdyk species spot sugar tail thick town of Amsterdam town of Paramaribo tree vessels Wana Creek whole woods wound Zelandia