A Memoir of Transactions That Took Place in St. Domingo, in the Spring of 1799: Affording an Idea of the Present State of that Country, the Real Character of Its Black Governor, Toussaint L'ouverture, and the Safety of our West-India Islands, from Attack or RevoltRainsford, Marcus, active 1805
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A Memoir of Transactions That Took Place in St. Domingo, in the Spring of 1799: Affording an Idea of the Present State of that Country, the Real Character of Its Black Governor, Toussaint L'ouverture, and the Safety of our West-India Islands, from Attack or Revolt
Rainsford, Marcus, active 1805
Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804
“In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark, through
honest Sweden, and frozen Lapland, rude and churlish Finland,
unprincipled Russia, and the wide-spread regions of the wandering
Tartar,—if hungry, dry, cold, wet, or sick, the women have ever been
friendly to me, and uniformly so; and to add to this virtue, (so
worthy of the appellation of benevolence,) these actions have been
performed in so free and so kind a manner, that if I was thirsty, I
drank the sweetest draught, and if hungry, I ate the coarse meal with
a double relish.”
[Illustration: FINIS]
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
Punctuation has been normalized.
Variations in spelling and hyphenation, as well as some instances
of obsolete spelling (such as “cloathing,” “centinel,” etc.) were
maintained.
The following typographical or printers’ errors have been corrected:
Page 9: “Touissant” changed to “Toussaint”
Page 9: “familiary” changed to “familiarity”
Page 18: “mulattœs” harmonized to “mulattos”
Page 21: “acknowlege” changed to “acknowledge”
Page 21: “sa” changed to “as”
Page 22: suspended from (removed duplicate “from”)
Page 23: “Fort Egaiite” changed to “Fort Egalite”
Page 24: danger or impropriety in (removed duplicate “in” )
End of Book: Footnote 3: “a planters” changed to “a planter;”
“voluptiousness” changed to
“voluptuousness”
Italicized words and phrases are presented by surrounding the text with
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