 | 1819 - 754 páginas
...our quarters. Other sacrifices, principally female, were made in the bush where the body was buried. It is usual « to wet the grave' with the blood of...unsuspectingly called on in a hurry to assist in placing the coiHn or basket, and just as it rests on the heads or skulls, a slave from behind stuns one of these... | |
 | 1819 - 614 páginas
...frequent bnrsting of their muskets made this rather disagreeable. The firing abated, they drank tlie grave ' with the blood of a freeman of respectability. All the retainers of the fivmily being present, and the heads of аД tlie victims deposited in the bottom of the grave, several... | |
 | Catherine Hutton - 1821 - 562 páginas
...quarters. Other sacrifices, principally of females, were made in the bush, where the body was buried. It is usual to " wet the grave" with the blood of a free man. The heads of the victims being placed at the bottom of the grave, several of the unsuspecting... | |
 | Robert Adam - 1823 - 530 páginas
...persons, it is said, were slaughtered each time, or 2,400 in all. At the funeral of a person of rank, it is usual to wet the grave with the blood of a free man of respectability. All the retaineis of the family being present, and the heads of all the... | |
 | 1824 - 484 páginas
...quarters. Other sacrifices, principally females, were made in the bush, where the body was buried. " It is usual to ' wet the grave' with the blood of a free man. The heads of the victims being placed at the bottom of the grave, several of the unsuspecting... | |
 | Thomas Robbins - 1824 - 494 páginas
...quarters. Other sacrifices, principally females, were made in the bush, where the bjdy was buried. " It is usual to ' wet the grave' with the blood of a free man. The heads of the victims being placed at the bottom of the grave, several of the unsuspecting... | |
 | 1825 - 840 páginas
...weekly for three months, and nearly 400 person were slaughtered. At the funeral of a person of rauk, it is usual to wet the grave with the blood of a freeman of respectability: all the retainers of a family are present, and the heaps of all the victims being deposited in the bottom of the grave,... | |
 | Jehoshaphat Aspin - 1834 - 300 páginas
...firing of musketry ; and large quantities of powder are subsequently spent in the same way. It is also usual to " wet the grave" with the blood of a freeman of respectability. Several are unexpectedly and hastily called upon to assist in placing the body in its final depository,... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1834 - 562 páginas
...and at the death of a great captain, two thousand four hundred. At the funeral of a person of r.-in k it is usual to wet the grave with the blood of a freeman, who is slaughtered unsuspectingly while assisting in the funeral rites, and rolled into the same grave.... | |
 | Joseph Nightingale - 1835 - 878 páginas
...quarters. Other sacrifices, principally females, were made in the bush, where the body was buried. " It is usual to " wet the grave" with the blood of a free man. . The heads of the victims being placed at the bottom of the grave, several of the unsuspecting... | |
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Twelve more were dragged forward ; but we forced our way through the crowd, and retired to our quarters. Other sacrifices, principally female, were made in the bush where the body was buried. It is usual « to wet the grave' with the blood of a freeman... 
