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 EditionJ. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 - 192 من الصفحات |
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... small boat , thinking to go on fhore without ceremony ; but before we got half way , to our great aftonishment , a fmart firing from the fort obliged us to return to the fhip ; fometime after , a low , fat , fwarthy man , who could ...
... small boat , thinking to go on fhore without ceremony ; but before we got half way , to our great aftonishment , a fmart firing from the fort obliged us to return to the fhip ; fometime after , a low , fat , fwarthy man , who could ...
الصفحة 16
... small canoes , or bom - boats , coming along fide the ship with coffee , fruit , and vegetables , will attract your attention ; but when you get up to Kingf- town , if you had five more fenfes , they would be all engaged ; the ...
... small canoes , or bom - boats , coming along fide the ship with coffee , fruit , and vegetables , will attract your attention ; but when you get up to Kingf- town , if you had five more fenfes , they would be all engaged ; the ...
الصفحة 36
... small lot of land for his own use , which they fell to purchase hats , gowns , shirts , trowfars , daucafes or fhifts , trinkets and paitry baubles , to give a more fable hue to their footy complexions . Spanish Town , before ...
... small lot of land for his own use , which they fell to purchase hats , gowns , shirts , trowfars , daucafes or fhifts , trinkets and paitry baubles , to give a more fable hue to their footy complexions . Spanish Town , before ...
الصفحة 47
... small pieces of metal about the fize and shape of whipping - tops , called capoufes ; the main or middle roller , being filled with a long bull - tree , which extends to the utmost centre of the roof , where it is fteadied by an iron ...
... small pieces of metal about the fize and shape of whipping - tops , called capoufes ; the main or middle roller , being filled with a long bull - tree , which extends to the utmost centre of the roof , where it is fteadied by an iron ...
الصفحة 48
... small quantity of Bristol lime and lye - water , the black boiler cries out , " Fia ! gran - coppa ! " i . e . Fire ! grand copper ! at which vociferation , a blazing fire is inftantly put to the grand copper , by the fire - man who at ...
... small quantity of Bristol lime and lye - water , the black boiler cries out , " Fia ! gran - coppa ! " i . e . Fire ! grand copper ! at which vociferation , a blazing fire is inftantly put to the grand copper , by the fire - man who at ...
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