| Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 páginas
...Dominica, where " some of our women and men, by eating a small fruit like green apples, were fearfully troubled with a sudden burning in their mouths, and swelling of their tongues so big, that some of them could not speak." Upon the 18th of August Eleanor, daughter to the Governor... | |
| Francis Lister Hawks - 1857 - 274 páginas
...on this island, some of our women and men, by eating small trait like green apples, were fearfully troubled with a sudden burning in their mouths, and swelling of their tongues so big, that some of them could not speak. Also a child, by sucking one of those women's breasts, had... | |
| Richard Hakluyt - 1889 - 734 páginas
...like greene Apples, were strange fearefully troubled with a sudden burning in their p acesmouthes, and swelling of their tongues so bigge, that some...could not speake. Also a child by sucking one of those womens breasts, had at that instant his mouth set on such a burning, that it was strange to see how... | |
| Richard Hakluyt - 1904 - 544 páginas
...small fruit like greene Apples, were fearefully ' troubled with a sudden burning in their mouthes, and swelling of their tongues so bigge, that some...could not speake. Also a child by sucking one of those womens breasts, had at that instant his mouth set on such a burning, that it was strange to see how... | |
| Richard Hakluyt - 1904 - 566 páginas
...a small fruit like greene Apples, were fearefully troubled with a sudden burning in their mouthes, and swelling of their tongues so bigge, that some...could not speake. Also a child by sucking one of those womens breasts, had at that instant his mouth set on such a burning, that it was strange to see how... | |
| Theodoor Hendrik Nikolaas de Booy, John Thomson Faris - 1918 - 390 páginas
...the island : "Some of the women and men, by eating a small fruit like a greene apple were fearfully troubled with a sudden burning in their mouths and...their tongues so bigge that some of them could not speak." It was fortunate for Raleigh's companions that some of them did not suffer worse effects from... | |
| Conway Whittle Sams - 1924 - 976 páginas
...on this island, some of our women2 and men, by eating small fruit like green apples, were fearfully troubled with a sudden burning in their mouths, and swelling of their tongues so big, that some of them could not speak. Also a child, by sucking one of these women's breasts, had... | |
| Archie Bell - 1926 - 488 páginas
...the apples ! "Some of the women and men, by eating a small fruit like a green apple were fearfully troubled with a sudden burning in their mouths and swelling of their tongues so big that some of them could not speak." And one fancies that they must have been hardy people to have... | |
| David Stick - 1983 - 288 páginas
...poisonous, and all who sampled it were "fearefully troubled with a sudden burning in their mouthes, and swelling of their tongues so bigge, that some of them could not speake." So potent was the poison that one of the babies, "by sucking one of those womens breastes, had at that... | |
| David B. Quinn - 1985 - 496 páginas
...Croix presents a vivid picture of seastricken landsmen who, when they experimented, were "fearfully troubled with a sudden burning in their mouths and swelling of their tongues so big, that some of them could not speak. Also a child by sucking one of those women's breasts had at... | |
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