Notes on the West Indies, vol. 2 of 2 (Registro nro. 118043)
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
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| Classification number | F1601 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Pinckard, George, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1768-1835 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Notes on the West Indies, vol. 2 of 2 |
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| Edition statement | Second edition |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
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| General note | Release date is 2025-11-24 |
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| Creation/production credits note | Richard Tonsing, MWS, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Notes on the West Indies, vol. 2 of 2" by George Pinckard is a travelogue and epistolary account written in the early 19th century. It follows a British army physician through the Guianas and the Caribbean, blending vivid travel observation with medical reporting on yellow fever, and frank commentary on colonial society, slavery, and Indigenous life.<br/><br/>The opening of the volume lays out a string of letters from the colonies of Berbice, Demerara, and Mahaica, moving from camp news and curiosities (an enormous snake, debates about “mermaids”) to planter hospitality and social absurdities. Pinckard contrasts army practice with local Dutch medicine over the treatment of “yellow fever,” recounts a Dutch military punishment and an electric eel demonstration, and sketches encounters with Indigenous visitors and a tiny “lion-monkey.” A stark scene of color prejudice appears when a mulatto woman refuses to touch a black infant. The narrative then shifts to a surge of fever cases, the author’s exhausting hospital duties, scant provisions, and his role officiating funerals, including the quiet, rapid death of a fellow officer. A harrowing centerpiece describes the murder of an enslaved man and the brutal flogging of his wife on the Lancaster estate, the enslaved community’s defiant funeral rites, and a callous attorney’s defense of such cruelty, followed by the woman’s neglected, maggot-infested wounds. Pinckard notes folk beliefs about tides and fever, a failed attempt at prophylaxis among soldiers, and small consolations like fresh meat from nearby estates. This opening ends with a visit to the eccentric planter Bercheych at a remote cotton property—his spare palm-built cottage, tamed birds and fish, abstention from spirits and tobacco, and a female-run household—offering a striking counterpoint to the surrounding hardship. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1816 |
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| Uncontrolled term | West Indies -- Description and travel |
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| Uncontrolled term | Slavery -- West Indies |
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| Uncontrolled term | Barbados -- Description and travel |
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| Uncontrolled term | Guyana -- Description and travel |
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| Uncontrolled term | Pinckard, George, 1768-1835 |
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| Uncontrolled term | English West Indian Expedition, 1795-1796 |
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| Uncontrolled term | Yellow fever -- Guyana |
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| Uncontrolled term | Indians of South America -- Guyana |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/notesonwestindie01pinc https://archive.org/details/notesonwestindie02pinc">https://archive.org/details/notesonwestindie01pinc https://archive.org/details/notesonwestindie02pinc</a> |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77323">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77323</a> |
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