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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S to A Jamaica , and I presume an entire ftranger to the nature of that climate and the people thereof , 1 think it a duty incumbent on me to give you some instructions and advice respecting both ; I shall speak from experience , for I ...
S to A Jamaica , and I presume an entire ftranger to the nature of that climate and the people thereof , 1 think it a duty incumbent on me to give you some instructions and advice respecting both ; I shall speak from experience , for I ...
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... sparkling particles like fire often attracted my attention ; sometimes I have been almost induced to think I was failing through a flaming phosphorus . I shall here submit an extract from a poem which I wrote on my first voyage .
... sparkling particles like fire often attracted my attention ; sometimes I have been almost induced to think I was failing through a flaming phosphorus . I shall here submit an extract from a poem which I wrote on my first voyage .
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I shall here give an extract , which curiosie tempted me one day to copy from one of the books . Juno - for the belly - ach , to take a dose of rhubar after it operates to drink lillipee and herrir broth , Dutchess for the lax , to eat ...
I shall here give an extract , which curiosie tempted me one day to copy from one of the books . Juno - for the belly - ach , to take a dose of rhubar after it operates to drink lillipee and herrir broth , Dutchess for the lax , to eat ...
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Notwithstanding all the advice and caution I shall hereafter give you , and in spite of all your own fortitude and firmest resolutions , respecting unlawful amours , you will , no doubt ( as frail felh and blood ) have connections with ...
Notwithstanding all the advice and caution I shall hereafter give you , and in spite of all your own fortitude and firmest resolutions , respecting unlawful amours , you will , no doubt ( as frail felh and blood ) have connections with ...
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I shall now proceed to give you a short dis , cription of the island of Jamaica , and of the people thereof , their manners and customs . foe ; ! “ Curst be the lines , how smooth fo e'er they flow , $ That tend to make one honest man ...
I shall now proceed to give you a short dis , cription of the island of Jamaica , and of the people thereof , their manners and customs . foe ; ! “ Curst be the lines , how smooth fo e'er they flow , $ That tend to make one honest man ...
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