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Page 128 - Go back and tell the English that I shall now act on my own account, and if they wish me to agree to their laws I shall leave and become a wanderer ; but before I go it will be seen, as I shall not go without having acted.
Page 69 - My Lord Duke, 'Your Grace's most obedient 'And very humble servant, 'QUINTUS SLIDE.
Page 128 - I have done anything yet in the way of killing. Why do the white people start at nothing ? I have not yet begun ; I have yet to kill ; it is the custom of our nation, and I shall not depart from it.
Page 376 - SECRETARY read the Minutes of the last Annual General Meeting, which were confirmed.
Page 68 - I have had the honour to lay before The Queen the loyal and dutiful Address of the President...
Page 121 - Again, in 1868, when the tribe were nearly annihilated by their neighbours, the old chief entreated that "he and his people should be allowed to rest under the large folds of the flag of England before he was no more;" and this was done, Governor Sir P.
Page 263 - I trust someone more competent may be induced to bring the subject of Jamaica more prominently before your notice. (Applause.) SEVENTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING. THE Seventh Ordinary General Meeting of the Session was held in the Theatre of the Society of Arts, John-street, Adelphi, on Tuesday evening, May 6th. In the absence of his Grace the Duke of Manchester, KP, Sir CHARLES NICHOLSON, Bart., Member of Council, presided. The llo.\.
Page 226 - We were once as obscure among the nations of the earth, as savage in our manners, as debased in our morals, as degraded in our understandings, as these unhappy Africans are at present.
Page 72 - Britain in its present annual export of over eleven millions of dollars worth of malt products. It raises and grazes the finest of cattle, with qualities especially desirable to make good the deterioration of stock in other sections...
Page iii - HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF MANCHESTER, KP HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND, KG THE RIGHT HON. THE MARQUIS OF LORNE, KT, GCMG THE MOST NOBLE THE MARQUIS OF NORMANBY, GCMG THE RIGHT HON.