 | 1830 - 714 páginas
...with showers of missiles and poisoned arrows, which were returned by the latter with a discharge of musketry. A small white flag had been previously waved...was renewed with greater violence than ever. In the mean time the Englishmen, with the blacks they had with, them, kept firing unceasingly amongst the... | |
 | 1830 - 736 páginas
...poisoned arrows, which were returned by the latter with a discharge of musketry. A small white flag bad been previously waved by our countrymen, in token...was renewed with greater violence than ever. In the mean time the Englishmen, with the blacks they had with them, kept firing unceasingly amongst the multitude... | |
 | 1830 - 426 páginas
...with showers of missiles and poisoned arrows, which were returned by the hitter with a discharge of musketry. A small white flag had been previously waved...understood by the people of Boussa, they continued firing their arrows, till they were joined by the whole male population of the island, when the unequal contest... | |
 | H. B. - 1835 - 334 páginas
...with showers of missiles and poisoned arrows, which were returned by the latter with a discharge of musketry. A small white flag had been previously waved by our countrymen, in token * It is not a little singular, that Clappertoa, who actually visited the place, should have mistaken... | |
 | Mungo Park - 1840 - 262 páginas
...with showers of missiles and poisoned arrows, which were returned by the latter with a discharge of musketry. A small white flag had been previously waved...was renewed with greater violence than ever. In the mean time the Englishmen, with the blacks they had with them, kept firing unceasingly among the multitude... | |
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... his associates to be some of them, coming with the intention of taking their town, and subjugating its inhabitants. Under this impression, they saluted the unfortunate Englishmen from the beach with showers of missiles and poisoned arrows, which were... 