West India Customs and Manners: Containing Strictures on the Soil, Cultivation, Produce, Trade, Officers, and Inhabitants: with the Method of Establishing, and Conducting a Sugar Plantation. To which is Added, the Practice of Training New Slaves. By J. B. Moreton, Esq. A New Edition |
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الصفحة 13
... but says , “ a single life is better ” . If so , they are fadly deceived , for the sense of that case is plain from many other parts of the gospel 1 ' B 3 gospel , and is to the following purport : “ IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 13.
... but says , “ a single life is better ” . If so , they are fadly deceived , for the sense of that case is plain from many other parts of the gospel 1 ' B 3 gospel , and is to the following purport : “ IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 13.
الصفحة 27
... mercurial purgatives are of essential service , nor should the patient by any means be diffuaded from caking them , it is also necessary to get blooded , provided always ( as they say in their acts of parliament ) that there is no ...
... mercurial purgatives are of essential service , nor should the patient by any means be diffuaded from caking them , it is also necessary to get blooded , provided always ( as they say in their acts of parliament ) that there is no ...
الصفحة 46
I say , when all these , and many other matters , are not considered of and prepared in time , if the canes are ripe , and dry weather ensues , they will turn red , or ( as they say ) get burnt ; after which , though they must be cut to ...
I say , when all these , and many other matters , are not considered of and prepared in time , if the canes are ripe , and dry weather ensues , they will turn red , or ( as they say ) get burnt ; after which , though they must be cut to ...
الصفحة 49
Some people may say , that any man may be a planter ; and that bringing canes to perfection , boiling of sugar , and distillation of rum , & c . & c . are quite simple ; that any man may get knowledge of these , without exposing his ...
Some people may say , that any man may be a planter ; and that bringing canes to perfection , boiling of sugar , and distillation of rum , & c . & c . are quite simple ; that any man may get knowledge of these , without exposing his ...
الصفحة 50
may think , and say , “ My overseers and drivers will instruct me -- they will direct me , and I will be the cowskin hero ; ” in this case he will find himself miserably mistaken ; for they will secretly laugh at him , and impofe upon ...
may think , and say , “ My overseers and drivers will instruct me -- they will direct me , and I will be the cowskin hero ; ” in this case he will find himself miserably mistaken ; for they will secretly laugh at him , and impofe upon ...
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