10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SEACUNNY»
Discover the use of
seacunny in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
seacunny and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
This is a book of astonishing range, and declares a new lyric direction in Woodward’s poetry.
About an hour after you left, a gang of the old thieves came down, and carried
away one of our tindals, who was watching the wreck of the old ship; I went over
with a gang of our men to rescue him, and in doing so lost a seacunny, who was
...
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The Asiatic Annual Register: Or, A View of the History of ...
... when one of the people made a stab at him with a boarding pike;, he returned
to his cabin for firearms, and a Manilla Seacunny and Malay Lascar rushed down
with cutlasses, on whom he discharged a pistol, and wounded the Seacunny in ...
Lawrence Dundas Campbell, E. Samuel, 1811
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The Asiatic Annual Register Or a View of the History of ...
This Seacunny was ordered forward immediately, and with the other was sent
below, and the hatch put over them, where they were kept till about four o'clock in
the morning, and then ordered up with a promise, that their lives should be
spared ...
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The Opium War, 1840-1842: Barbarians in the Celestial Empire ...
Hot words flew, the villagers seized bamboos and other implements and fell upon
Parry and his men; and though Parry got the tindal away, a seacunny (lascar
steersman) who lagged behind was knocked to the ground and stabbed in the ...
6
The Blood-red Arab Flag: An Investigation Into Qasimi ...
When a search-party was sent back for the Seacunny the next morning, they
discovered only a half-eaten corpse. There were similarities between the uses of
force at sea in the Gulf and the place of plunder and violence in bedouin society.
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Britain and the China Trade 1635-1842
The inhabitants of the Keeow village came in force in the evening of the next day
and carried off a tindal (boatswain) ; and in rescuing him, a seacunny (
quartermaster) was carried off by the villagers. When this was reported to Captain
Grant, ...
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The Asiatic annual register or a view of the history of ...
... 1804, at 11 V'ffi'Wt seacunny of the watch, called ovit that he saw the land,' and
before any body else could distinguish, ,$ being very dark ; saw the appearance
of breakers a-head ;' ' put the helm immediately for the purpose of bringing her ...
Shespentmost of her childhood in fear ofher wallpaper,so that she was
eventuallymoved into the back bedroom with hersisters and more orlessforgot
about the Seacunny until she wasa married woman and took upthe master
bedroom once ...
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Indian Factories & Labour Reports
In that case an application was made by the widow of one Oosman Baba, who
was employed as a Seacunny on the ship called s.s. Caltex London. According to
the applicant, the deceased used to carry out hard and strenuous duties as a ...
