Journal of a West-India Proprietor: Kept During a Residence in the Island of Jamaica (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Journal of a West-India Proprietor: Kept During a Residence in the Island of Jamaica

Enabled her to convey more perfectly to the audi ence the expressive silence of irremediable distress.

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Excerpt from Journal of a West-India Proprietor: Kept During a Residence in the Island of Jamaica

I Left London, and reached Gravesend at nine in the morning, having been taught to expect our sailing in a few hours. But although the vessel left the Docks on Saturday, she did not reach this place till three o'clock on Thursday, the 9th. The captain now tells me, that we may expect to sail certainly in the afternoon of to-morrow, the 10th. I expect the ship's cabin to gain greatly by my two days' residence at the "..... ...., " which nothing can exceed for noise, dirt, and dulness.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.