Sir Edward Seward's Narrative of His Shipwreck, and Consequent Discovery of Certain Islands in the Caribbean Sea: With a Detail of Many Extraordinary and Highly Interesting Events in His Life, from the Year 1733 to 1749, as Written in His Own Diary, Bind 1Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1831 |
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... vessel to the shore - plants yams and coccos , melon and pump- kin seeds - lays out a plantation near the silk- cotton tree . - They are sick from eating the crayfish - what medicine they took . - He brings the xii CONTENTS .
... vessel to the shore - plants yams and coccos , melon and pump- kin seeds - lays out a plantation near the silk- cotton tree . - They are sick from eating the crayfish - what medicine they took . - He brings the xii CONTENTS .
Side xiv
... plantation CHAP . X. - 234 Description of the grounds under cultivation . -- The negroes ' story of themselves , and escape from ship- wreck . - Many excellent reflections . - Negroes ' harvest got in . - A storm on the 1st of Sept ...
... plantation CHAP . X. - 234 Description of the grounds under cultivation . -- The negroes ' story of themselves , and escape from ship- wreck . - Many excellent reflections . - Negroes ' harvest got in . - A storm on the 1st of Sept ...
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... plantations , we were charmed by the superb face of the whole country . The sky was brilliant and cloudless , the breeze fair and refresh- ing : our spirits were proportionally buoyant ; and as the vessel ran along shore for Port Royal ...
... plantations , we were charmed by the superb face of the whole country . The sky was brilliant and cloudless , the breeze fair and refresh- ing : our spirits were proportionally buoyant ; and as the vessel ran along shore for Port Royal ...
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... plantation , for the quantity of fit ground at this place was very small . My axe being new , I soon felled the tree ; and as soon as it dropped , Eliza was at my side . I cut off the cocoa - nuts , twenty - eight in number , which she ...
... plantation , for the quantity of fit ground at this place was very small . My axe being new , I soon felled the tree ; and as soon as it dropped , Eliza was at my side . I cut off the cocoa - nuts , twenty - eight in number , which she ...
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... plantation there ; for as none of the situations near to our abode were very good , I thought it advisable not to confine our roots and seeds to one place . My dear wife , as usual , took a basket with provisions , and with her pike for ...
... plantation there ; for as none of the situations near to our abode were very good , I thought it advisable not to confine our roots and seeds to one place . My dear wife , as usual , took a basket with provisions , and with her pike for ...
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