Notes on the West Indies: Including Observations Relative to the Creoles and Slaves of the Western Colonies and the Indian of South America : Interspersed with Remarks Upon the Seasoning Or Yellow Fever of Hot Climates, Volumen2Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1816 - 534 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 42 - ... upon the neck of which was an iron collar, and a long heavy chain, which the now murdered negro had been made to wear from the time of his return to the eftate.
Página 20 - Amsterdam has a targe electric eel, which he has kept for several years in a tub, made for that purpose, placed under a small shed near to the house. This fish possesses strong electrical powers, and often causes scenes of diversion among the soldiers and sailors, who are struck with astonishment at its qualities, and believe it to be in league with some evil spirit. Two sailors, wholly unacquainted with the properties of the animal, were one day told to fetch an eel, which was lying in the tub in...
Página 21 - The sailed had no sooner reached the shed, than one of them plunged his hand to the bottom of the tub to seize the eel ; when he received a blow which benumbed his whole arm ; without knowing what it was, he started from the tub, shaking his fingers, and holding his elbow with his other hand, crying out, " I say, Jack, what a thump he fetched me with his tail...
Página 41 - Taking with him two of his strongest drivers, armed with heavy whips, he led out these trembling and wretched Africans, early in the morning, to a remote part of the estate, too distant for the officers to hear their cries, and, there, tying down first the man, he stood by, and made the drivers flog him with many hundred...
Página 477 - ... devourers. Dr. Pinckard, in his excellent notes on the West Indies, remarks, that it is not a law of contagion to make its attack upon the most robust and vigorous people ; more commonly it assails those of tender fibre as, — for example, were any given number of strong, healthy men, and the same number of children, to be exposed at the same time to the influence of the contagion of small-pox, measles, or scarlatina, common observation informs us that the children would be found to be most...
Página 236 - ... mother, in agonizing impulse, instantly fell down before the spectator, bowed herself to the earth, and kissed his feet; then, alternately clinging to his legs, and pressing her children to her bosom, she fixed herself upon her kneesi clasping her hands together, and, in anguish, cast up a look' of humble petition, which might have found its way to the heart of a Caligula.
Página 21 - ... diversion among the soldiers and sailors, who are struck with astonishment at its qualities, and believe it to be in league with some evil spirit. Two sailors, wholly unacquainted with the properties of the animal, were one day told to fetch an eel, which was lying in the tub in the yard, and give it to the cook to dress for dinner. It is a strong fish of seven or eight pounds weight, and gives a severe shock on being touched, particularly if at all irritated or enraged. The...
Página 403 - Malvoisie and the Cape, added to the natural gaiety of good company that kind of social freedom which sometimes stretches beyond the rigid decorum of it. In short, we were in a state to allow of any thing that would produce mirth. Chamfort had been reading some of his impious and libertine tales, and the fine ladies had heard them, without once making use of their fans.
Página 263 - ... beginning of December, acquiring its greatest force during January and February. At the spring equinox it abates a little, and then there follows a period of calms, interrupted by squalls ; while in July the south-easterly breezes increase. These blow mostly at night. The year is, as a rule, clearly divided into two wet and two dry seasons, the long wet season lasting from mid-April to mid- August, and the long dry season from early in September to about the last week in November. December and...