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 42
... taken into custody ; but their accomplices on board suspecting what had happened , immediately slipped their cable , and set sail for the island of Cayenne , where this piracy was put to an end ; for the French , seizing ship and crew ...
... taken into custody ; but their accomplices on board suspecting what had happened , immediately slipped their cable , and set sail for the island of Cayenne , where this piracy was put to an end ; for the French , seizing ship and crew ...
Page 248
... Taken in the Camp Fatal Rencounter of a Party with the Rebels , who Killed Several of the Troops , and Forced the Rest Back Description of a Planter of Surinam Contagious Distempers Suicide Scene of Primitive Nature HAVE just mentioned ...
... Taken in the Camp Fatal Rencounter of a Party with the Rebels , who Killed Several of the Troops , and Forced the Rest Back Description of a Planter of Surinam Contagious Distempers Suicide Scene of Primitive Nature HAVE just mentioned ...
Page 315
... taken in a small field of bitter cassava . The poor woman was pregnant , and Chapter 23 under great alarms , but was tenderly treated by Medlar , who was always a humane and well - disposed gentleman . He had , however , unluckily lost ...
... taken in a small field of bitter cassava . The poor woman was pregnant , and Chapter 23 under great alarms , but was tenderly treated by Medlar , who was always a humane and well - disposed gentleman . He had , however , unluckily lost ...
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