A Tour Through the Island of Jamaica: From the Western to the Eastern End, in the Year 1823 |
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... look at the dancers , more especially after they had taken their allowance of grog , which it was no part of their new faith to renounce . My friend Quashie had got into disgrace , and came to me to intercede for him . He had lamed the ...
... look at the dancers , more especially after they had taken their allowance of grog , which it was no part of their new faith to renounce . My friend Quashie had got into disgrace , and came to me to intercede for him . He had lamed the ...
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... look and figure all confusion and rage mingled with apprehension . Diana , the peerless maid , still seated on the ground , sobbed out " fool and knave , " and said she came to bor- row Ebenezer's big book . A woman's tears are always ...
... look and figure all confusion and rage mingled with apprehension . Diana , the peerless maid , still seated on the ground , sobbed out " fool and knave , " and said she came to bor- row Ebenezer's big book . A woman's tears are always ...
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... look of satisfaction at her companions , and even at her master . My valet re - mounted on his feet , began a sermon on the impropriety of his treatment , which was cut short by the chattering of the women , who were now fain to quiz ...
... look of satisfaction at her companions , and even at her master . My valet re - mounted on his feet , began a sermon on the impropriety of his treatment , which was cut short by the chattering of the women , who were now fain to quiz ...
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... looks betrayed the appearance of guilt in spite of my innocence . I had sent forward Pompeius Magnus with the sumpter - mule , to be out of the way of any more tricks or quarrelling among the girls ; and when I took my de- parture , I ...
... looks betrayed the appearance of guilt in spite of my innocence . I had sent forward Pompeius Magnus with the sumpter - mule , to be out of the way of any more tricks or quarrelling among the girls ; and when I took my de- parture , I ...
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... look at her elegant person , from which , indeed , it was impossible to withdraw my eyes ; and while my horse still drank , I asked her , half seriously , for an ex- planation of the adventures of last night . She smiled as she cast a ...
... look at her elegant person , from which , indeed , it was impossible to withdraw my eyes ; and while my horse still drank , I asked her , half seriously , for an ex- planation of the adventures of last night . She smiled as she cast a ...
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Page 71 - Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you ; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over...
Page 71 - And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished. Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.
Page 70 - I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free...
Page 70 - If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve : and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
Page 71 - Then his master shall bring him unto the judges ; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door-post ; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl ; and he shall serve him for ever.
Page 22 - ... celebration of ninth-night in form of pocomania' may well be the same word in slightly altered form and meaning. Williams has described a love-dance as it occurred in 1826 : They divided themselves into parties to dance, some before the gombays, in a ring, to perform a bolero or a sort of lovedance as it is called, where the gentlemen occasionally wiped the perspiration off the shining faces of their black beauties, who, in turn, performed the same service to the minstrel. An outdoor popular...
Page 21 - ... they again assembled on the lawn "before the house with then. gombays, bonjaws, and.' an ebo drum, made of a hollow tree, with a piece of sheepskin stretched over it.
Page 26 - ... eight or ten young girls marching before a man dressed up in a mask with a grey beard and long flowing hair, who carried the model of a house on his head. This house is called the Jonkanoo, and the bearer of it is generally chosen for his superior activity in dancing. . . . The girls also danced. . . . All this ceremony is certainly a commemoration of the deluge. The custom is African and religious, although the purpose is forgotten. Some writer, whose name I forget, says that the house is an...
Page 105 - Dea belubb'd, we gather together dis face congregation, because it horrible among all men not to take delight in hand for wantonness, lust, and appetite, like brute mule, dat hab no understanding. When de man cut down like guinea grass, he worship no more any body, but gib all him world's good to de debbil; and Garamighty tell him soul must come up into heab'n, where notting but glorio.
Page 72 - O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God ! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out ! For who hath known the mind of the Lord ? or who hath been his counsellor...