aukwardly harmonious
Is this some kind of oxymoron? I think this combination of awkwardness and harmony indicates that Grainger finds it difficult to understand the dance and music from his point of view. Awkwardness indicates his confusion, but harmony implies that music and dance may transcend cultural barriers, and he can somehow resonate with the melody and detect the melancholy emotion in the music.
Of Typhon, or of hurricane, destroy.
fierce nature!
reward their pains.
Can their pains be really "rewarded?" Grainger here assumes that material benefits can be exchanged for the enslaved laborers' cruel labor?
Let the loud bell recall them to the hoe.
This bell sound indicates another round of labor for the enslaved people. They became manipulated and controled by bell sound, and even the laborers' themselves become like working machines.
Let health and youth their every sinew firm; Clear roll their ample eye; their tongue be red; Broad swell their chest; their shoulders wide expand
This part represents the colonizers' or the slave traders' point of view, emphasizing the enslaved people's physical capability and health. It is also quite crucial to meditate on the complicated theme of bodily description.
With heart-felt anguish, they lament their home; They will not, cannot work; they never learn Thy native language; they are prone to ails; [70] And oft by suicide their being end
This part reveals the enslaved laborers' nostalgic feeling. They believe that death can bring them back to their original homeland. The only way out is through suicide. The similar belief can be found in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, in which the protagonists would rather kill Imoinda, his baby, and himself to avoid being enslaved.
Baynard
Bermuda
Matanina
Karukera
muscovado
Crab island
St. Croix
hiccory
calaba
hogsheads
the leeward islands
coco
Antigua
Nile
That yams improve the soil.
yams
Dorchestria
Dorset, Britain
With weeds, mould, dung, and stale, a compost form, Of force to fertilize the poorest soil.
Gallia
France
lily
the flag of pre-Revolutionary France
Liamuiga
Markley-hill of old
Pomona
saccharize
bill
arrow
monkeys
rats
Plymouth
the treaty of Breda
Charles II.
Sir Thomas Warner
Q. Anne
K. William
Antillean Cane
Medusa
Antigua
Columbus’s second voyage
Leeward Island
Bristol
hot well
the Carlisle-family
King Charles II.
indigo
ginger
cotton
tobacco
the Early of Marlborough
the Earl of Carlisle
Charles I.
wild hogs
Mountserrat
Chief Nevis
Barbadoes
Decan
Malabar
lines
Milton
Q. Curtius
Sugar-isles
bearded fig
guaiac
the Prince
the Nine
the Muses
King Charles
Sir Thomas Modyford
Oliver Cromwell
the Leeward islands
a second time plunered
St. Jago de la Vega
Sir Anthony Shirley
James
The island of Jamaica was bestowed on Columbus, as some compensation for his discovery of the new world
the Reformation
his first voyage to America
Iberian King
COLUMBUS
DAUGHTERS of Heaven
the Muses
Sloane
Sloane's A Voyage to the Islands
The inhabitants of St. Christopher
Pluto
Proserpine
l. per C. wt
Brazil-trade
Lisbon
Ingenio de açucar
Pedro de Atenca
St. Domingo
Ferdinand the Catholic
the Great of Lesser Antilles
the Cape-Verd islands
Canary
Madeiras
Azores
Barbary-coast
Pyrenean mountains
the treaty of Utrecht
Hispaniola
Martinico
the treaty of Ryswick
King James
Solfaterre
Mount Misery
Nevis
St. Kitts
Enna
his Majesty
seventy miles
eighty square miles
Templeman
Thomas Templeman, author of A New Survey of the Globe (c1729)
fabulous legend
Mount Misery
second voyage
Christopher Columbus
St. Christopher
Arcadian Pan
Tempé
after-offspring
maybe ratoon-canes
the dog-star
Lady’s-thighs
Sir Hans Sloane
Ulloa
sabbaca
acajou
shaddoc
pockwood-tree
lignum-vitae
astringent
Silk-cotton-tree
small-pox
guaiac
guava
ceiba
cassia
locust
The wild red cedar
muscovado
Sugar’d
Chaucer
Jamaica
Leeward Islands
the treaty of Breda
Surinam
Caspian
Persia
the Red-sea
μελι το χαλαμιυου το λεγομευον σαχΧαρε
translation
περιπλουσ
translation
Saccharum et Arabia fert, sed laudatius India
*Dulces bibebant ex arundine succos*.
Pompey
Arrian
Pliny
Lucan
Imperial George
George III
Aurelius
George Thomas
Sommerville
William Somerville
Smart
Christopher Smart
Dyer
Pomona’s Bard
John Philips
Maro
Virgil
Ascrean
the sacred Mount
home of the Muses
Th’ Ascrean Poet
Hesiod
myrtle
the trade-wind
Myrtle
Woura
Montserrat
Nevis
Barbados
The black soil
Christopher Columbus
Jamaica
a West-India georgic
Vos sequor, o Graiae gentis decus, inque vestris nunc Fixa pedum pono pressis vestigia signis; Non ita certandi cupidus, quam propter amorem, Quod vos imitari aveo.——
from De Rerum Natura by Titus Lucretius Carus
Basseterre
the capital of St Kitts
Dyer
John Dyer (?1700-57), English poet, author of The Fleece (1757)
Philips
John Philips (1676-1709), English poet, author of Cyder (1708)
West-Indies
Pere Labat
Jean-Baptiste Labat (1663—1738), the author of Nouveau Voyage aux lies de I'Amerique (1722)
Colonel Martyn
Colonel Samuel Martin (c. 1690-1776), author of An Essay upon Plantership
That gentleman’s pamphlet
Colonel Martyn's An Essay upon Plantership
Virgil
Hesiod
St. Christophers
Agredior primusque novis Helicona movere Cantibus, et viridi nutantes vertice sylvas; Hospita sacra ferens, nulli memorata priorum. MANIL. —