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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... some instructions and advice refpecting both ; I shall speak from experience , for I was five years in that ifland ; and fhould what I fhall offer , prove any way inftrumental in promoting your happiness , I fhall hereafter feel a ...
... some instructions and advice refpecting both ; I shall speak from experience , for I was five years in that ifland ; and fhould what I fhall offer , prove any way inftrumental in promoting your happiness , I fhall hereafter feel a ...
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... some severe toil , or bad weather , having previously got the consent of the captain , or mate , leaft they get drunk and neglect their duty , and you should be blamed . I love failors ; they are generous , rough , uncouth beings ; do ...
... some severe toil , or bad weather , having previously got the consent of the captain , or mate , leaft they get drunk and neglect their duty , and you should be blamed . I love failors ; they are generous , rough , uncouth beings ; do ...
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... some of them with a fharp knife , and obferving the grain : if it appears foft and moift , like a potatoe or turnip , it is too green : but if dry , and white par- ticles appear , you may be fure that the cane is ripe ; any man , who is ...
... some of them with a fharp knife , and obferving the grain : if it appears foft and moift , like a potatoe or turnip , it is too green : but if dry , and white par- ticles appear , you may be fure that the cane is ripe ; any man , who is ...
الصفحة 49
... Some people may fay , that any man may be a planter ; and that bringing canes to perfection , boiling of fugar , and diftillation of rum , & c . & c . are quite fimple ; that any man may get know- ledge of these , without expofing his ...
... Some people may fay , that any man may be a planter ; and that bringing canes to perfection , boiling of fugar , and diftillation of rum , & c . & c . are quite fimple ; that any man may get know- ledge of these , without expofing his ...
الصفحة 55
... Some diftillers throw in the fweets at diffe- rent times , and make fuch mixtures that keep working on flowly for fixteen , eighteen , or twenty days ; but fuch I am convinced know nothing about diftillation ; the generality of ...
... Some diftillers throw in the fweets at diffe- rent times , and make fuch mixtures that keep working on flowly for fixteen , eighteen , or twenty days ; but fuch I am convinced know nothing about diftillation ; the generality of ...
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