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Page 80 - THOU who, when fears attack, Bidst them avaunt, and Black Care, at the horseman's back Perching, unseatest ; Sweet, when the morn is gray; Sweet, when they've cleared away Lunch ; and at close of day Possibly sweetest : I have a liking old For thee, though manifold Stories, I know, are told, Not to thy credit ; How one (or two at most) Drops make a cat a ghost — Useless, except to roast — Doctors have said it : How they who use fusees All grow by slow degrees Brainless as chimpanzees, Meagre...
Page 28 - He found it steep, rocky, and difficult, and not wide enough to admit the passage of two persons abreast. However, he surmounted these obstacles; and having gained a small eminence, commanding the huts in which the negroes were asleep, he fixed his little train of artillery to the best advantage, and fired upon them so briskly, that many were slain in their habitations, and several threw themselves headlong down the precipice. Captain Stoddart...
Page 30 - She was possessed of supernatural powers, and spirited away the best and finest of the slaves from the outlying estates. She never went into battle armed like the rest, but received the bullets of the enemy that were aimed at her, and returned them with fatal effect, in a manner of which decency forbids a nearer description. She kept at the junction of the Nanny and Stony rivers, at the foot of the precipice on whose brink Nanny Town stood, a huge cauldron boiling, without any fire underneath; and...
Page 28 - ... the whole body of militia, in their reduction. In the year 1734, Captain Stoddart, who commanded one of these parties, projected, and executed with great success, an attack of the Maroon windward town, called Nanny, situate on one of the highest mountains in the island. Having provided some portable swivel guns, he silently approached, and reached within a small distance of their quarters undiscovered. After halting for some time, he began to ascend by the only path leading to their town. He...
Page 28 - Cud joe," that it became necessary to increase the military strength of the colony, and to erect extra barracks. Every barrack was provided with a pack of dogs by the churchwardens of the parish, to guard against surprises at night, and for tracking the enemy in the mountain fastnesses. In 1734 Captain...
Page 14 - ... Hill, dividing the waters of the Buff Bay and Spanish rivers ; and the other very high ridge extending from Fox's Gap, at the boundary of St. Mary and Portland, northeasterly, culminating in a conspicuous elevation called Hay Cock Hill, 2,500 feet above the sea, and terminating on the coast near Dover. The John Crow Range, which runs in a north-westerly and south-easterly direction, in the parishes of Portland and St. Thomas, divides the Rio Grande Valley from the eastern coast of the island....
Page 48 - Hutchinson ; and the following are extracts from a letter I have received from him, and which I publish with his assent : — " I do not think that there can be any reasonable doubt that a very large majority of those who suffer from inherited syphilis take the taint from the male parent It is the rule when a man marries who has no remaining local lesion, but in whom the taint is not eradicated, for his wife to remain apparently well, whilst her child may suffer.
Page 30 - ... life, ten times more ferocious and blood-thirsty than any man among the Maroons. She was possessed of supernatural powers, and spirited away the best and finest of the slaves from the outlying estates. She never went into battle armed like the rest, but received the bullets of the enemy that were aimed at her, and returned them with fatal effect, in a manner of which decency forbids a nearer description. She kept at the junction of the Nanny and Stony rivers, at the foot of the precipice on whose...
Page 14 - College when mere striplings, and without any definite object, retire from it after a single session or so, you will be able to form some idea of the nature of the...
Page 30 - ... for me to attempt to go would be suicidal. On being examined as to details he said that if one were to kill a wild hog and put it to roast, or put any food to cook, a large bird with a red tail would swoop down upon it and carry it off, and we would be powerless to lift up a gun tq shoot it.