But the excessive heat was not the only thing that rendered their situation intolerable. The deck, that is, the floor of their rooms, was so covered with the blood and mucus which had proceeded from them in consequence of the flux, that it resembled a... An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa - Page 25by Alexander Falconbridge - 1788 - 51 pagesFull view - About this book
| Alexander Falconbridge - 1788 - 64 pages
...onlything that rendered their fituation intolerable. The deck, that is, the floor of their rooms, was fo covered with the blood and mucus which had proceeded...refembled a flaughter-houfe. It is not in the power of the human imagination, to picture to itfelf a fituation more dreadful or difgufting. Numbers of the... | |
| sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1st bart.) - 1838 - 244 pages
...thing that rendered their situation intolerable. The deck, that is, the floor of their rooms, was so covered with the blood and mucus which had proceeded from them in consequence of the flux, that it resembled a slaughter-house. It is not in the power of the human imagination... | |
| bart Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - Slave trade - 1838 - 244 pages
...thing that rendered their situation intolerable. The deck, that is, the floor of their rooms, was so covered with the blood and mucus which had proceeded from them in consequence of the flux, that it resembled a slaughter-house. It is not in the power of the human imagination... | |
| Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - Africa - 1840 - 530 pages
...thing that rendered their situation intolerable. The deck, that is, the floor of their rooms, was so covered with the blood and mucus which had proceeded from them in consequence of the flux, that it resembled a slaughter-house. It is not in the power of the human imagination... | |
| John Coleman De Graft-Johnson - Social Science - 1986 - 240 pages
...thing that rendered their situation intolerable. The deck, that is the floor of their rooms, was so covered with the blood and mucus which had proceeded from them in consequence of the flux, that it resembled a slaughterhouse. It is not in the power of the human imagination... | |
| Kathy Sammis - History - 1997 - 128 pages
...fevers and fluxes which generally carry off great numbers of them. . . . The floor of their rooms was so covered with the blood and mucus which had proceeded from them in consequence of the flux, that it resembled a slaughter-house. It is not in the power of the human imagination... | |
| Katherine Kemi Bankole - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 280 pages
...thing that rendered their situation intolerable. The deck, that is the floor of their rooms, was so covered with the blood and mucus which had proceeded from them in consequence of the flux, that it resembled a slaughterhouse (d'Auvergne 1933, 27). They expected a... | |
| Charles Johnson, Patricia Smith, WGBH Series Research Team - History - 1999 - 554 pages
...shut and the grating to be covered, fluxes and fevers among the negroes ensued. . . . The deck was so covered with the blood and mucus which had proceeded from them in consequence of the flux, that it resembled a slaughterhouse. It is not in the power of the human imagination,... | |
| Barry Unsworth - Fiction - 1999 - 260 pages
...thing that rendered their situation intolerable. The deck, that is the floor of their rooms, was so covered with the blood and mucus which had proceeded from them in consequence of their flux that it resembled a slaughterhouse. It is not in the power of the human imagination... | |
| William Randolph Scott - History - 2000 - 486 pages
...thing that rendered their situation intolerable. The deck, that is the floor of their rooms, was so covered with the blood and mucus which had proceeded from them in consequence of the flux, that it resembled a slaughter-house. It is not in the power of the human imagination... | |
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