 | Charles Darwin - 1846 - 716 pages
...again visit a slave-country. To this day, if I hear a distant scream, it recalls with painful vividness my feelings, when, passing a house near Pernambuco,...I was as powerless as a child even to remonstrate. I suspected that theSp moans were from a tortured slave, for I was told that this was the case in another... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1879 - 254 pages
...feelings when, passing a house near Pernambuco, I heard the most pitiable moans, and could not but BRAZIL. suspect that some poor slave was being tortured, yet...I was as powerless as a child even to remonstrate. I suspected that these moans were from a tortured slave, for I was told that this was the case in another... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1879 - 452 pages
...again visit a slave country. To this day, if I hear a distant scream, it recalls with painful vividness my feelings when, passing a house near Pernambuco,...I heard the most pitiable moans, and could not but BRAZIL. suspect that some poor slave was being tortured, yet knew that I was as powerless as a child... | |
 | Edward Woodall - 1884 - 94 pages
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 | Edward Woodall - 1884 - 100 pages
...again visit a slave country. To this day, if I hear a distant scream, it recalls with painful vividness my feelings when, passing a house near Pernambuco,...as powerless as a child even to remonstrate " ; and he adds, " it makes one's blood boil, yet heart tremble," to think what Englishmen and Americans have... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - 1887 - 232 pages
...again visit a slave-country. To this day, if I hear a distant scream, it recalls with painful vividness my feelings when, passing a house near Pernambuco,...was as powerless as a child, even to remonstrate. I suspected that these moans were from a tortured slave, for I was told that this was the case in another... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1889 - 628 pages
...again visit a slave-country. To this day, if I hear a distant scream, it recalls with painful vividness my feelings when, passing a house near Pernambuco,...I was as powerless as a child even to remonstrate. I suspected that these moans were from a tortured slave, for I was told that this was the case in another... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1889 - 462 pages
...again visit a slave country. To this day, if I hear a distant scream, it recalls with painful vividness my feelings, when passing a house near Pernambuco,...suspect that some poor slave was being tortured, yet * I have described this Bar in detail, in the London and Edinburgh Philosophic Magazine, vol. xix.... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1890 - 646 pages
...visit a slave -country. To this daj', if I hear a distant scream, it recalls with painful vividness my feelings, when, passing a house near Pernambuco,...some poor slave was being tortured, yet knew that 1 was as powerless as a child even to remonstrate. I suspected that these moans were from a tortured... | |
 | Charles Frederick Holder - 1891 - 374 pages
...never again visit a slave-country. To this day, if I hear a scream, it recalls with painful vividness my feelings, when, passing a house near Pernambuco,...the most pitiable moans, and could not but suspect some poor slave was being tortured." The Cape Verd Islands were next visited, from there sailing to... | |
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To this day, if I hear a distant scream, it recalls with painful vividness my feelings when, passing a house near Pernambuco, I heard the most pitiable moans, and could not but suspect that some poor slave was being tortured, yet knew that I was as powerless... 
