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• I saw a native doctor making his "greegree," or charm, for rain. —  Journal of an African Cruiser
• He never imagined that the year 1773 would behold him beneath the rainy season in a tropical country, wading through marshes and splashing through lakes, exploring with his feet for submerged paths, commanding impracticable troops, and commanded by an insufferable colonel, feeding on greegree worms and fed upon by mosquitos, howled at by jaguars, hissed at by serpents, and shot at by those exceedingly unattainable gentlemen, "still longed for, never seen," the Maroons of Surinam. —  Black Rebellion Five Slave Revolts
• As for Stedman, he still went barefooted, still quarrelled with his colonel, still sketched the scenery and described the reptiles, still reared greegree worms for his private kitchen, still quoted good poetry and wrote execrable, still pitied all the sufferers around him, black, white, and red, until finally he and his comrades were ordered back to Holland in 1776. —  Black Rebellion Five Slave Revolts
• The ball had cut the ligature which bound his "greegree" of shells around his head, and the faithless charm lay on the ground beside him. —  Journal of an African Cruiser

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