 It is sometimes usual to take out casks filled with sea-water, as ballast ; and when the slaves are received on board, to start the casks, and refill them with fresh. On one occasion, a ship from Bahia neglected to change the contents of the casks, and,...  The African Repository - Seite 371841Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1836 - 600 Seiten
...rabid at the sight of it. There is nothing which slaves, in the mid-passage, suffer from so much as want of water. It is sometimes usual to take out casks...contents of the casks, and, on the midpassage, found, to their horror, that they were filled with nothing but salt water. All the slaves on board perished.'... | |
 | William Whitaker Shreeve - 1817 - 128 Seiten
...the sight of it. There is nothing which slaves, during the middle passage, suffer from so much as the want of water. It is sometimes usual to take out casks filled with sea water as ballast, and, when the slaves are received on board, they start the casks and refill them... | |
 | 1830 - 614 Seiten
...rabid at the sight of it. There is nothing which slaves, in the mid-passage, suffer from so much as want of water. It is sometimes usual to take out casks filled with sea water, as ballast, and when the slaves are received on board, to start the casks, and refill them... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1830 - 592 Seiten
...rabid at the sight of it. There is nothing which slaves, in the mid-passage, suffer from so much as want of water. It is sometimes usual to take out casks filled with sea water, as ballast, and when the slaves are received on board, to start the casks, and refill them... | |
 | 1831 - 858 Seiten
...rabid at the sight of it. There is nothing which slaves, in the mid passage, suffer from so much as the want of water. It is sometimes usual to take out casks filled with sea- water, as ballast, and when the slaves are received on board, to start the casks, end refill them... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1832 - 616 Seiten
...rabid at the sight of it. There is nothing which slaves, in the midpassage, suffer from so much as want of water. It is sometimes usual to take out casks...start the casks and refill them with fresh. On one oecasion, a ship from Bahia neglected to change the contents of the casks, and on the mid-passage found,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 Seiten
...nothing" which slaves, in the midÎassage, suffer from so much as want of water. I is somelimes usual lo take out casks filled with sea-water as ballast, and...refill them with fresh. On one occasion, a ship from Bahía neglected to change the contents of the casks, and on Uie mid-passage found, to iheir horror,... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1832 - 622 Seiten
...rabid al Ihe sighl of il. There is nolhing which slaves, in the midpassage, suffer from so much as want of water. It is sometimes usual to take out casks filled wilh sea-waler as ballasl, and when Ihe slaves are received on board, to start the casks and refill... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - 1833 - 262 Seiten
...rabid at the sight of it. There is nothing1 from which slaves in the mid-passage suffer so much as want of water. It is sometimes usual to take out casks...sea-water as ballast, and when the slaves are received on hoard, to start the casks, and re-fill them with fresh. On one occasion, a ship from Bahia neglected... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1835 - 624 Seiten
...of it. There is nothing which slaves, in the midpassage, suffer from so much as want of water. It ,s sometimes usual to take out casks filled with sea-water...contents of the casks, and on the mid-passage found, to their horror, that they were filled w,th nothing but salt water. All the slaves on board perished... | |
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