Warner Arundell: The Adventures of a CreoleUniversity of the West Indies Press, 2001 - 527 páginas
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Contenido
Acknowledgements | viii |
Warner Arundell The Adventures of a Creole | 1 |
Volume I | 7 |
My fathers marriage took place in 1794 | 13 |
The protracted and ruinous war of Grenada | 21 |
I was christened by parson May | 29 |
My father gradually sunk into a state of lethargy | 34 |
A West Indian funeral | 38 |
At length we approached the tropic of Cancer | 200 |
Scarcely had we entered the harbour of St Thomass | 208 |
On going ashore I found that my old friend | 219 |
About this time i e in 1817 the demon of civil war | 227 |
The island of Margarita | 234 |
The next morning I took leave | 242 |
I was now fairly embarked in the cause | 251 |
Fortune now set in full tide | 258 |
I took leave of my uncle | 43 |
In the course of the afternoon I overheard a conversation | 48 |
The Hawk having been refitted | 54 |
The wind at length favoured us | 58 |
I again embarked on board the Hawk | 66 |
Antigua although on the whole a beautiful and healthy island | 70 |
An event took place which called me from Antigua | 79 |
We landed at Port of Spain | 84 |
I lamented the death | 92 |
Captain Jones of the schooner Baracouta | 97 |
During the times of vacation | 101 |
I had now spent seven happy years | 108 |
A South American launch | 113 |
A few days after this event | 120 |
My aunt appeared to be in a dying state | 125 |
When the mournful thoughts which always attend | 133 |
We remained eight days at St Thomass | 139 |
Volume II | 149 |
Having taken up much time to relate what I thought | 164 |
In 1816 I studied hard | 174 |
It was evening before we fairly got into the British Channel | 185 |
All night our guide rode before us | 281 |
I lodged in a pretty good tavern in St Georges | 291 |
Walking along the city one day | 298 |
It was afternoon when I went in a canoe | 311 |
There was one advantage in my present situation | 318 |
A few days after sending this letter | 324 |
Trinidad although beyond comparison the most fertile | 332 |
I rode to Port of Spain on a borrowed animal | 340 |
Being more alarmed about my money | 347 |
On my arrival at my house | 359 |
There was no moon visible | 367 |
As day opened I arose | 378 |
The commandant hurried me | 387 |
Fortune now set in full tide in my favour | 404 |
I must now give an account of my legal campaign | 411 |
These transactions necessarily took up some months | 422 |
I landed early in the morning | 428 |
Annotations to the Text | 437 |
The Maroon Party A WestIndian Sketch 1835 | 503 |
References | 523 |
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