Stark's Jamaica Guide (Illustrated): Containing a Description of Everything Relating to Jamaica of which the Visitor Or Resident May Desire Information, Including Its History, Inhabitants, Government, Resources, and Places of Interest to TravellersJ. H. Stark, 1902 - 207 pages |
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Page 62 - The wretch that was burnt, was made to sit on the ground, and his body being chained to an iron stake, the fire was applied to his feet He uttered not a groan, and saw his legs reduced to ashes, with the utmost firmness and composure ; after which one of his arms by some means getting loose, he snatched a brand from the fire that was consuming him, and flung it in the face of the Executioner.
Page 122 - Earth has nothing more lovely than the pastures and pimento groves of St. Ann — nothing more enchanting than its hills and vales delicious in verdure and redolent with fragrance of spices.
Page 29 - The continuing surplus accrues from no increase of taxation, and is in the face of a large expenditure on public works of utility and importance, of a largely increasing expenditure on such departments as those of education and medicine, and of...
Page 62 - Maria ; killed the sentinel, and provided themselves with as great a quantity of arms and ammunition as they could conveniently dispose of. Being by this time joined by a number of their countrymen from the neighbouring plantations, they marched up the high road that led to the interior parts of the country, carrying death and desolation as they went. At Ballard's Valley they surrounded the overseer's house about four in the morning, in which eight or ten White people were in bed, every one of whom...
Page 99 - May 26th, 1780. Captured in the US Brig of War Vixen, Under his command, By HBM Frigate Southampton; He died a Prisoner of War at this place, January 4th, 1813. Unwilling to forsake his companions in Captivity, He declined a proffered parole, and sunk under a tropical Fever. THIS STONE Is inscribed by the hand of affection as a memorial of his virtues, and records the gratitude of his friends For the kind offices which in the season of sickness and hour of Death He received at the hands of • A...
Page 62 - ... the parade of the town of Kingston. From that time, until they expired, they never uttered the least complaint, -except only of cold in the night, but diverted themselves all day long in discourse with their countrymen, who were permitted, very improperly, to surround the gibbet. On the seventh day a notion prevailed among the spectators, that one of them wished to communicate an important secret to his master, my near relation; who being in St.
Page 190 - Island any person so appointed, then in the senior military officer for the time being in command of Her Majesty's regular troops in the said Island.
Page 189 - Commission which reported on the matter said that "the disturbances had their immediate origin in a planned resistance to lawful authority, which resistance was caused in manifold ways, by a desire to obtain land free of rent...
Page 182 - ... falls into a decline, under the incessant horror of impending calamities. The slightest painful sensation in the head, the bowels, or any other part, any casual loss or hurt, confirms his apprehensions, and he believes himself the devoted victim of an invisible and irresistible agency. Sleep, appetite, and cheerfulness forsake him, his strength decays, his disturbed imagination is haunted without respite, his features wear the settled gloom of despondency: dirt, or any other unwholesome substance,...
Page 60 - The circumstances which distinguish the Koromantyn, or Gold coast negroes, from all others, are firmness both of body and mind; a ferociousness of disposition ; but withal, activity, courage, and a stubbornness, or what an ancient Roman would have deemed an elevation of soul, which prompts them to enterprizes of difficulty and danger; and enables them to meet death, in its most horrible shape, with fortitude or indifference.