A Tour Through the Island of Jamaica: From the Western to the Eastern End, in the Year 1823Hunt and Clarke, 1826 - 352 sidor |
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... means the sacred boat or the sacred dove - caken meaning sacred , and jona a dove , in Hebrew or Samaritan : but as I have no pretension to etymology , I leave this subject to the literati . The negroes have a custom of performing ...
... means the sacred boat or the sacred dove - caken meaning sacred , and jona a dove , in Hebrew or Samaritan : but as I have no pretension to etymology , I leave this subject to the literati . The negroes have a custom of performing ...
Sida 46
... mean , I leave the young ladies , the fair sex , to the satyrs . I arose from my bed , and would have told her so , but she scampered off on seeing me move , and tumbled in her hurry over Ebenezer , who was snoring at my door , which ...
... mean , I leave the young ladies , the fair sex , to the satyrs . I arose from my bed , and would have told her so , but she scampered off on seeing me move , and tumbled in her hurry over Ebenezer , who was snoring at my door , which ...
Sida 47
... - appearance at the door of my room . I had then time and opportunity to behold the group , in which I cut no mean figure . Ebe- nezer was limping and holding one hand on J A his rear , his shirt torn and rumpled , JAMAICA . 47 .
... - appearance at the door of my room . I had then time and opportunity to behold the group , in which I cut no mean figure . Ebe- nezer was limping and holding one hand on J A his rear , his shirt torn and rumpled , JAMAICA . 47 .
Sida 54
... means black , though there was something in the contour of it that reminded me of her African origin ; still it was not woolly , but rather a mass of small natural curls , such as I have often seen imitated by the ladies in England ...
... means black , though there was something in the contour of it that reminded me of her African origin ; still it was not woolly , but rather a mass of small natural curls , such as I have often seen imitated by the ladies in England ...
Sida 102
... means an expensive ; one and a great proportion of their savings is often devoted to this purpose . Mr. Klopstock related to me an account of a negro who begged to be indulged in this way , and constituted him executor , that he might ...
... means an expensive ; one and a great proportion of their savings is often devoted to this purpose . Mr. Klopstock related to me an account of a negro who begged to be indulged in this way , and constituted him executor , that he might ...
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A Tour Through the Island of Jamaica: From the Western to the Eastern End in ... Cynric R. Williams Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1827 |
A Tour Through the Island of Jamaica: From the Western to the Eastern End in ... Cynric R. Williams Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1826 |
A Tour Through the Island of Jamaica: From the Western to the Eastern End in ... Cynric R. Williams Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1827 |
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Sida 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...
Sida 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.
Sida 70 - I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free...
Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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...
Sida 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.
Sida 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...
Sida 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.
Sida 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...