Four Years' Residence in the West IndiesWilliam Kidd, 1830 - 693 páginas |
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... passing over our heads , and re- flected in the clear lake below ; the rich lands around us , scattered here and there with a noble's lordly mansion , or a peasant's lowly cot ; the beautiful little village in the distance , and the ...
... passing over our heads , and re- flected in the clear lake below ; the rich lands around us , scattered here and there with a noble's lordly mansion , or a peasant's lowly cot ; the beautiful little village in the distance , and the ...
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... passed it without approaching nearer . Prosperous gales continued to waft us on our voy- age , without any event happening to us , except our , now and then , falling in with a lonely sail , which never came near enough to speak us . We ...
... passed it without approaching nearer . Prosperous gales continued to waft us on our voy- age , without any event happening to us , except our , now and then , falling in with a lonely sail , which never came near enough to speak us . We ...
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... passed the dreaded tro- pic but alas ! how vain are the resolves of mortality ! -the following morning , as we had just finished breakfast , we heard , through a speaking trumpet , the cry of Genoese ahoy ! and imagining that it pro ...
... passed the dreaded tro- pic but alas ! how vain are the resolves of mortality ! -the following morning , as we had just finished breakfast , we heard , through a speaking trumpet , the cry of Genoese ahoy ! and imagining that it pro ...
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... passed by the lordly denomination of Chepstow Lodge . : Here we took up our abode , which being on a low and damp spot near the river , was none of the heal- thiest my father was constantly on duty ; while I made the best use of the ...
... passed by the lordly denomination of Chepstow Lodge . : Here we took up our abode , which being on a low and damp spot near the river , was none of the heal- thiest my father was constantly on duty ; while I made the best use of the ...
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... passed ; and as we continued our ride along the smooth and level road , I said to my friend , " what inhuman master could have so ill treated a human being , as to leave him , like the miserable creature we have just passed ; houseless ...
... passed ; and as we continued our ride along the smooth and level road , I said to my friend , " what inhuman master could have so ill treated a human being , as to leave him , like the miserable creature we have just passed ; houseless ...
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amusing Anguilla Antigua Antilles appearance appointed Governor arrived ball Barbadian Barbados beautiful Bitt breakfast breeze Bridgetown called canes Captain Carenage chapel CHAPTER Charaibs church Codrington Codrington College Colonel colony colored commenced contains creoles cultivated dance dollars Dominica emancipation England English exports fair fish Fort Charlotte French garrison gentlemen Gouyave Grenada happy hhds Hill horses hundred hurricane Indians inhabitants island of St Jamaica Kingstown Kitts ladies land Leeward Islands letter lively Lucia Martinique Massa Methodists militia Montserrat morning Mount Young mountain negroes never night Number of slaves o'clock officers party persons plantations planters Population present reader residence ride road sail scene scenery schooner seen servant ship slavery slaves Society sugar thee thing thou tion town trees Trinidad troops tropic vessel Vincent visited West Indies whites young
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Página 523 - Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence; man may range The court, camp, church, the vessel, and the mart, Sword, gown, gain, glory, offer in exchange Pride, fame, ambition, to fill up his heart, And few there are whom these cannot estrange: Men have all these resources, we but one, To love again, and be again undone.
Página 117 - A blank, my lord : She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i...
Página 321 - How dear to me the hour when daylight dies, And sunbeams melt along the silent sea, For then sweet dreams of other days arise, And memory breathes her vesper sigh to thee.
Página 546 - Guam use it for bread. They gather it when full grown, while it is green and hard: then they bake it in an oven, which scorcheth the rind, and makes it black; but they scrape off the outside black crust, and there remains a tender thin crust; and the inside is soft, tender and white, like the crumb of a penny loaf.
Página 550 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...
Página 131 - ... all of them to be under the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience ; who shall be obliged to study and practice physic and chirurgery, as well as divinity ; that by the apparent usefulness of the former to all mankind, they may both endear themselves to the people, and have the better opportunities of doing good to men's souls, whilst they are taking care of their bodies ; but the particulars of the constitution I leave to the Society, composed of wise and good men.
Página 248 - And, shiver'd by the force, come piecemeal down. Oft liquid lakes of burning sulphur flow, Fed from the fiery springs that boil below.
Página 534 - This dreadful tragedy ended, when it happens in a town, the devastation is surveyed with accumulated horror : the harbour is covered •with wrecks of boats and vessels ; and the shore has not a vestige of its former state remaining. Mounds of rubbish and rafters in one place, heaps of earth and trunks of trees in another, deep gullies from torrents of water, and the dead and dying bodies of men, women, and children, half buried, and scattered about, where streets but a few hours before were, present...
Página 534 - ... destruction — the roofs of houses are carried to vast distances from their walls, which are beaten to the ground, burying their inhabitants under them — large trees are torn up by the roots, and huge branches shivered off, and driven through the air in every direction, with immense velocity — every tree and shrub that withstands the shock, is stripped of its boughs and foliage — plants and grass are laid flat on the earth — luxuriant spring is changed in a moment to dreary winter.