 | Thomas Coke - Sierra Leone - 1812 - 66 pages
...animals they found in the fields, streets, yards, 13 or elsewhere; not sparing even asses, dogs, and cats. These proceedings they continued the whole succeeding week, till they had entirely mined our beautiful and prosperous colony ; and when they found nothing more worth plundering, they... | |
 | Prince Hoare - Abolitionists - 1820 - 634 pages
...and animals they fonnd in the fields, streets, yards, or elsewhere, not sparing even asses, dogs, and cats. These proceedings they continued the whole succeeding...week, till they had entirely ruined our beautiful and prospering colony. When I returned to the town, I found my house converted into a melancholy guardhouse... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 936 pages
...animals they found in the fields or streets, yards or elsewhere, not sparing even ' asses, dogs, and cats. These proceedings they continued the whole succeeding...week, till they had entirely ruined our beautiful and prospering colony ; and when they found nothing more worth plundering, they set fire to the public... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 798 pages
...animals they found in the fields or streets, yards, or elsewhere, not sparing even asses, dogs, and cats. These proceedings they continued the whole succeeding...week, till they had entirely ruined our beautiful and prospering colony; and, when they found nothing more worth plundering, they set fire to the public... | |
 | William Fox - Africa, West - 1851 - 678 pages
...and animals they found in the fields, streets, yards, or elsewhere, not sparing even asses, dogs, and cats. These proceedings they continued the whole succeeding...week, till they had entirely ruined our beautiful and prospering colony ; and when they found nothing more worth plundering, they set fire to the public... | |
 | Claude George - Africa, West - 1904 - 488 pages
...and animals they found in the fields, streets, yards, or elsewhere, not sparing even asses, dogs, and cats. These proceedings they continued the whole succeeding...week till they had entirely ruined our beautiful and prospering Colony. When I returned to the town I found my house converted into a melancholy guard-house.... | |
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... provisions, clothing and other stores. They began immediately to break open the houses and to plunder. What they did not want, they destroyed, burnt, or threw into the river. They killed all the cattle and animals they found in the fields or streets,... 