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digital-grainger.github.io digital-grainger.github.io
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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.
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Of Typhon, or of hurricane, destroy.
fierce nature!
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reward their pains.
Can their pains be really "rewarded?" Grainger here assumes that material benefits can be exchanged for the enslaved laborers' cruel labor?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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- Jul 2018
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 1131
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Baynard
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 1091
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Bermuda
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 1022
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Matanina
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Karukera
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 1001
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muscovado
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 994
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Crab island
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St. Croix
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hiccory
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calaba
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 984
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hogsheads
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the leeward islands
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coco
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Antigua
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 971
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Nile
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- Jun 2018
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 204
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That yams improve the soil.
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yams
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Dorchestria
Dorset, Britain
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With weeds, mould, dung, and stale, a compost form, Of force to fertilize the poorest soil.
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 193
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Gallia
France
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lily
the flag of pre-Revolutionary France
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Liamuiga
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 183
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Markley-hill of old
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Pomona
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saccharize
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 174
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bill
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arrow
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monkeys
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rats
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 168
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Plymouth
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the treaty of Breda
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Charles II.
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Sir Thomas Warner
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Q. Anne
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K. William
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Antillean Cane
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Medusa
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 1518
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Antigua
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Columbus’s second voyage
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Leeward Island
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Bristol
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hot well
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the Carlisle-family
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King Charles II.
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indigo
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ginger
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cotton
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tobacco
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the Early of Marlborough
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the Earl of Carlisle
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Charles I.
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wild hogs
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Mountserrat
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Chief Nevis
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Barbadoes
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 1410
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Decan
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Malabar
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lines
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Milton
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Q. Curtius
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Sugar-isles
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bearded fig
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guaiac
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the Prince
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the Nine
the Muses
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 1312
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King Charles
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Sir Thomas Modyford
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Oliver Cromwell
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the Leeward islands
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a second time plunered
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St. Jago de la Vega
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Sir Anthony Shirley
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James
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The island of Jamaica was bestowed on Columbus, as some compensation for his discovery of the new world
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the Reformation
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his first voyage to America
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Iberian King
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 122
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COLUMBUS
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DAUGHTERS of Heaven
the Muses
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 114
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Sloane
Sloane's A Voyage to the Islands
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The inhabitants of St. Christopher
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Pluto
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Proserpine
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 514
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l. per C. wt
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Brazil-trade
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Lisbon
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Ingenio de açucar
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Pedro de Atenca
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St. Domingo
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Ferdinand the Catholic
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the Great of Lesser Antilles
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the Cape-Verd islands
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Canary
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Madeiras
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Azores
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Barbary-coast
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Pyrenean mountains
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 1010
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the treaty of Utrecht
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Hispaniola
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Martinico
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the treaty of Ryswick
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King James
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Solfaterre
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Mount Misery
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Nevis
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St. Kitts
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Enna
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 913
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his Majesty
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seventy miles
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eighty square miles
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Templeman
Thomas Templeman, author of A New Survey of the Globe (c1729)
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fabulous legend
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Mount Misery
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second voyage
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Christopher Columbus
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St. Christopher
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Arcadian Pan
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Tempé
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after-offspring
maybe ratoon-canes
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the dog-star
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 86
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Lady’s-thighs
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Sir Hans Sloane
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Ulloa
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sabbaca
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acajou
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shaddoc
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 79
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pockwood-tree
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lignum-vitae
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astringent
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Silk-cotton-tree
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small-pox
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guaiac
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guava
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ceiba
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cassia
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 69
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locust
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The wild red cedar
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muscovado
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Sugar’d
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Chaucer
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Jamaica
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Leeward Islands
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the treaty of Breda
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Surinam
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 413
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Caspian
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Persia
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the Red-sea
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μελι το χαλαμιυου το λεγομευον σαχΧαρε
translation
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περιπλουσ
translation
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Saccharum et Arabia fert, sed laudatius India
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*Dulces bibebant ex arundine succos*.
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Pompey
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Arrian
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Pliny
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Lucan
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Imperial George
George III
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Aurelius
George Thomas
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 39
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Sommerville
William Somerville
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Smart
Christopher Smart
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Dyer
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Pomona’s Bard
John Philips
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Maro
Virgil
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Ascrean
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the sacred Mount
home of the Muses
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Th’ Ascrean Poet
Hesiod
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myrtle
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.ioargument9
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the trade-wind
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Myrtle
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Woura
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Montserrat
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Nevis
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Barbados
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The black soil
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Christopher Columbus
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Jamaica
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage vii3
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a West-India georgic
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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
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Basseterre
the capital of St Kitts
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage vi8
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Dyer
John Dyer (?1700-57), English poet, author of The Fleece (1757)
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Philips
John Philips (1676-1709), English poet, author of Cyder (1708)
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West-Indies
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Pere Labat
Jean-Baptiste Labat (1663—1738), the author of Nouveau Voyage aux lies de I'Amerique (1722)
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Colonel Martyn
Colonel Samuel Martin (c. 1690-1776), author of An Essay upon Plantership
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That gentleman’s pamphlet
Colonel Martyn's An Essay upon Plantership
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Virgil
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Hesiod
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage v1
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St. Christophers
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.io
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Agredior primusque novis Helicona movere Cantibus, et viridi nutantes vertice sylvas; Hospita sacra ferens, nulli memorata priorum. MANIL. —
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