A New Collection of Voyages, Discoveries and Travels: Containing Whatever is Worthy of Notice, in Europe, Asia, Africa and America, Том 1J. Knox, 1767 |
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Стр. 411 - Quinterones, there are feveral intervening circumftances which throw them back ; for between the Mulatto and the negro, there is an intermediate race, which they call Sambos, owing their origin to a mixture between one of thefe with an Indian, or among themfelves.
Стр. 456 - ... edge it was built, or of being buried under it by the daily accumulations of ice and snow.
Стр. 430 - ... and if the pearl be but formed, it is fufficient, without any regard to its being fmall or faulty. The remainder, however large or beautiful, are the Negro's own property, nor has the...
Стр. 183 - Being informed at the beginning of the year 1511, that the court was very defirous of having a colony planted in the great ifland of Cuba, he refolved to be beforehand with them, and to fend a body of men thither under the command of a perfon whom he could truft : that having a lieutenant there of his own, the court might have no pretence for making a grant of it to any more adventurers, as they had done of that part of the continent difcovered by his father, and even of the ifland of Jamaica ; which...
Стр. 441 - ... with a keel, and makes very little lee-way. This advantage it derives from another method of steering than by a rudder ; namely, by...
Стр. 443 - He is then dragged afhore, \vhereheviolently endeavours to refcue himfelf, while the Indians bait him like a bull, knowing that the greateft damage he can do, is to throw down fuch as, for want of care or agility, do not keep out of his reach.
Стр. 413 - ... hopes of being preferred to any poft anfwerable to the pains they have taken : for as there is in this country neither army nor navy, and the civil employments very few, it is not at all furprifing, that the defpair of making their fortunes by this method fhould damp their ardor for excelling in the fciences, and plunge them into idlenefs, the fure forerunner of vice ; where they lofe the ufe of their reafon, and ftifle thofe good principles which fired them when young and under proper fubjection.
Стр. 446 - In fome parts the declivity is fo great that the mules can fcarce keep their footing, and in others the acclivity is equally difficult. In many places the road is...
Стр. 424 - ... to an extreme pain When he endeavours to move them. In this difagreeable cry confifts his whole defence ; for, it being natural to him to fly at the firft hoftile approach of any beaft, he makes at every motion fuch bowlings as are even infupportable to his purfuer, who foon quits him, and even flies beyond the hearing of his horrid noife.
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