A description of the island of St. Helena; containing observations on its singular structure and formation, and an account of its climate, natural history, and inhabitants / [Anon].

  • Duncan, Francis, M.D.
Date:
1805
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A description of the island of St. Helena; containing observations on its singular structure and formation, and an account of its climate, natural history, and inhabitants / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    it by surprize. It was retaken, the fol- lowing year, together with the Dutch ships in the roads, by Captain Munden : and has remained ever since in the pos- session of the English East India Com- pany. The history of discovery and coloni- zation is too often the history of in- justice and oppression ; of countries in- vaded, because they were rich and va- luable] and of their inhabitants enslaved or exterminated, because they were weakc Happily, the settlement of this barren island has afforded no oppor- tunity of increasing the catalogue of crimes, committed by the discoverers of new regions. It was found without any human inhabitants, without qua- drupeds, and almost without birds. For excepting some species of sea fowls, which still hover about its coast, and the man of war and tropic birds which b F annually