Letters from the Virgin Islands: Illustrating Life and Manners in the West IndiesJ. Van Voorst, 1843 - 286 pagina's |
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Pagina 263 - Southwest, and on the 8 in the morning being Saturday came to an anker some 7 or 8 leagues off within certain broken Hands called Las Virgines, which have bene accounted dangerous : but we found there a very good rode, had it bene for a 1000 sails of ships in 14, 12, and 8 fadomes faire sand and good ankorage, high Islands on either side, but no fresh water that we could find : here is much fish to be taken with hookes and nets : also we stayed on shore and fowled.
Pagina 113 - Chalkley, found there a field of labor, and a grave. There are no members of the Society now on the island, but there is a small community of black people, settled, as tenants in common, on an estate once belonging to Samuel and Mary Nottingham, quakers of high character. About sixty years ago, they liberated their slaves, from conscientious motives, and gave them their estate, at Longlook, on the eastern coast. A letter of Christian advice addressed to their predecessors by these pious persons,...
Pagina 263 - Francis in his barge discovered the night before, and ankored in 13 fadoms, having hie steepe hils on either side, some league distant from our first riding. The 12 in the morning we weied and set sayle into the sea due South through a small streit but without danger, and then stode West and by North for S.
Pagina 286 - I speak not this against any magistrates or peoples defending themselves against foreign invasions ; or making use of the sword to suppress the violent and evil-doers within their borders — for this the present state of things may and doth require...
Pagina 98 - Anieles of sole are exhibited fresh from the packages in which they arrive, to be consigned there again if declined by the customer. Canton shawls emerge in this way from their figured cases, artificial flowers bloom in plain deal boxes, and fine linen tempts you from a hair trunk. This, however, chiefly prevails in the principal stores ; those of less note expose, at least, some of their goods. MANUFACTURE OF BAGGING. The Louisville Journal states that 14,0Э0 tons of hemp were produced in Kentucky...
Pagina 269 - WE therefore commit his body to the deep, to be turned into corruption, looking for the resurrection of the body, (when the sea shall give up her dead,) and the life of the world to come...
Pagina 162 - Island ; and the same day towards evening, we landed upon one of thena, called Blanca, where we killed an incredible number of fowls ; here we stayed but three hours, and from thence stood upon the shore northwest, and having brought this island southeast of us, we put, towards night, through an opening -or swatch, called The passage, lying between the Virgins, and the east end of St. John ; here the pinnace left us and sailed on the southside of St.