 | 1797 - 618 pages
...and some other gentlemen of Jamaica joined the party. ' We arrived in the harbour of Cape Francois in the evening of the 26th of September, and the first...covered with ashes, and the surrounding hills, as far aa the eye could reach, every where, presented t» to as ruins still smoking, and houses and plantations... | |
 | 1797 - 616 pages
...party. • We arrived in the harbour of Cape François in the evening of the 20th of September, and tlic first object which arrested our attention as we approached, was a dreadful scene of devastation by fire. The nobl« plain adjoining the Cape was covered with ashes, and the lurrounding hills, as far as the eye... | |
 | Bryan Edwards - 1819 - 524 pages
...; and some other gentlemen of Jamaica joined the party. We arrived in the harbour of Cape Francois in the evening of the 26th of September, and the first...us ruins still smoking, and houses and plantations moment1 in flames. It was a sight more ' terrible than tbe mind of any man, unaccustomed to.,such a... | |
 | Lothrop Stoddard - 1914 - 454 pages
...testimony. "We arrived in the harbor of Le Cap," he writes, "at evening of September 26, and the first sight which arrested our attention as we approached was...of devastation by fire. The noble plain adjoining Le Cap was covered with ashes, and the surrounding hills, as far as the eye could reach, everywhere... | |
 | Jay Saunders Redding - 1992 - 252 pages
...start of the nightmare, wrote: "We arrived in the harbor of Le Cap at evening . . . and the first sight which arrested our attention as we approached was...of devastation by fire. The noble plain adjoining Le Cap was covered with ashes, and the surrounding hills, as far as the eye could reach, everywhere... | |
 | Joan Dayan, Colin Dayan - 1998 - 372 pages
...Survey of the French Colony in the Island of St. Domingo. We arrived in the harbour of Cape François in the evening of the 26th of September, and the first...surrounding hills, as far as the eye could reach, and every where presented to us ruins still smoking, and houses and plantations at that moment in flames.... | |
 | Alfred N. Hunt - 2006 - 220 pages
...surrounding countryside was the best agricultural region in the prosperous colony, yet, in September, 1791, "the noble plain adjoining the Cape was covered with...surrounding hills, as far as the eye could reach, everywhere presented to us ruins still smoking, and houses and plantations at that moment in flames.... | |
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\Ve arrived," says he, " in the harbour of Cape Francis, 1791- in the evening of the 26th of September, and the first object which arrested our attention, as we approached, was a dreadful scene of devastation by fire. The noble plain adjoining the Cape... 