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Mary Gaunt. Where the Twain Meet
Where the Twain Meet
Table of Contents
PREFACE
WHERE THE TWAIN MEET
CHAPTER I—BRITAIN'S FIRST TROPICAL COLONY
CHAPTER II—THE WHITE BONDSMEN
CHAPTER III—JAMAICA'S FIRST HISTORIAN
CHAPTER IV—THE CASTLES ON THE GUINEA COAST
CHAPTER V—THE MIDDLE PASSAGE
CHAPTER VI—THE PLANTATION
CHAPTER VII—SLAVE REBELLIONS
CHAPTER VIII—THE MAROONS
CHAPTER IX—THE FOOTPRINTS OF THE YEARS
CHAPTER X—THE MAKING OF CHRISTIANS
CHAPTER XI—THE FREEING OF THE SLAVE
CHAPTER XII—JAMAICA AS I SAW IT
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Mary Gaunt
Published by Good Press, 2021
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And when they didn't trade and they didn't rob they helped themselves not only to wood and water but to beef and pork, that was running wild it is true, but naturally the Spaniards considered it theirs, and then sometimes, when they had raided a little too often, the tables were turned and they left their bones there.
Don Fernando goes at length into his prowess in going out in a boat to defend a frigate—a frigate was a very small ship in those days—that two English launches had boarded and he says he retook that frigate and made them retire. More, he sent Captain Sebastian Gonzalez—there is a swagger in his name—with troops by land to Port Negrillo, there “to wait till the Captain of the English corsair should go to obtain water and capture him; and they lay in wait for him and killed those who landed and brought back their ears, broke the jars to pieces and burnt the boat.”
