Captain Canot
- ISBN-10
- ISBN-13
- 9798711053750
- Series
- Captain Canot
- Pages
- 430
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-03-20
- Publisher
- Independently Published
- Author
- Theodore Canotbrantz Mayer
Description
Book Excerpt: omen separated--Attention to health, cleanliness, ventilation--Singing and amusements--Daily purification of the vessel--Night, order and silence preserved by negro constables--Use and disuse of handcuffs--Brazilian slavers--(Note on condition of slavers since the treaty with Spain) 99CHAP. XII.--How a cargo of slaves is landed in Cuba--Detection avoided--"Gratificaciones." Clothes distributed--Vessel burnt or sent in as a coaster, or in distress--A slave's first glimpse of a Cuban plantation--Delight with food and dress--Oddity of beasts of burden and vehicles--A slave's first interview with a negro postilion--the postilion's sermon in favor of slavery--Dealings with the anchorites--How tobacco smoke blinds public functionaries--My popularity on the Rio Pongo--Ormond's enmity to me 107CHAP. XIII.--I become intimate with "Country princes" and receive their presents--Royal marriages--Insulting to refuse a proffered wife--I am pressed to wed a princess and my diplomacy to escapRead More
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