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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... for I was five years in that island ; and should what I fall offer , prove any way inftrumental in promoting your happiness , I shall hereafter feel a secret fatisfaction for having employed a few vacant hours so well .
... for I was five years in that island ; and should what I fall offer , prove any way inftrumental in promoting your happiness , I shall hereafter feel a secret fatisfaction for having employed a few vacant hours so well .
الصفحة 10
... to evade them ; with sharks , porpoises and bonnettas innumerable all around , seeming to welcome each newborn day , are objects grateful to the eye , pleasing to the mind , and truly delightful ! But should storms prevail to anger ...
... to evade them ; with sharks , porpoises and bonnettas innumerable all around , seeming to welcome each newborn day , are objects grateful to the eye , pleasing to the mind , and truly delightful ! But should storms prevail to anger ...
الصفحة 12
c . boarded us ; we were informed by the fat man , ( who was their linguist ) that they were customhouse officers , and that we should have waited till they boarded us , and got their fees , which was a few pounds ...
c . boarded us ; we were informed by the fat man , ( who was their linguist ) that they were customhouse officers , and that we should have waited till they boarded us , and got their fees , which was a few pounds ...
الصفحة 13
... superftitious and treacherous ; the finest of their women , some hundreds of them , are cooped up in convents ; what piry that fine young women should be compelled to whither out their days in such inglorious dens of folitude ...
... superftitious and treacherous ; the finest of their women , some hundreds of them , are cooped up in convents ; what piry that fine young women should be compelled to whither out their days in such inglorious dens of folitude ...
الصفحة 14
And surely it is a violation of the Almighty's command not to “ increase and multiply ; " for those who receive life should give life to others . I was hurt very much whenever I saw any of their bald - pated hypocritical guardians ...
And surely it is a violation of the Almighty's command not to “ increase and multiply ; " for those who receive life should give life to others . I was hurt very much whenever I saw any of their bald - pated hypocritical guardians ...
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