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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... troops should be placed under Fourgeoud . This decision was not well received by the governor who was further ... troops in Surinam . Since there was no longer immediate need for action the troops remained inactive in their camps in ...
... troops should be placed under Fourgeoud . This decision was not well received by the governor who was further ... troops in Surinam . Since there was no longer immediate need for action the troops remained inactive in their camps in ...
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... Troops re - enter the Woods · • Account of Loango Dancing Uncommon Proof of Fidelity in a Negro . . CHAPTER 15 PAGE 205 · · Description of the Indians , Aborigines of Guiana . Their Food Arms Ornaments · Employments Diversions Passions ...
... Troops re - enter the Woods · • Account of Loango Dancing Uncommon Proof of Fidelity in a Negro . . CHAPTER 15 PAGE 205 · · Description of the Indians , Aborigines of Guiana . Their Food Arms Ornaments · Employments Diversions Passions ...
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... troops , and the black soldiers or rangers , by which name I shall for the future distinguish them , their service being chiefly like that of the rangers in Vir- ginia , who were sent out against the Cherokee Indians . Another ...
... troops , and the black soldiers or rangers , by which name I shall for the future distinguish them , their service being chiefly like that of the rangers in Vir- ginia , who were sent out against the Cherokee Indians . Another ...
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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