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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As soon as we came to anchor oppofite Madeira , à small African island , situated in about 320 , N. latitude and 160 , 50 W. longitude , we got into the small boat , thinking to go on fhore without ceremony ; but before we got half way ...
As soon as we came to anchor oppofite Madeira , à small African island , situated in about 320 , N. latitude and 160 , 50 W. longitude , we got into the small boat , thinking to go on fhore without ceremony ; but before we got half way ...
الصفحة 16
... that if the hands were not tied , the wounded person could not avoid scratching ; and those who don't take care of their nails , soon have their legs inflamed with disagreeable fores ; I have heard of many young men's legs ?
... that if the hands were not tied , the wounded person could not avoid scratching ; and those who don't take care of their nails , soon have their legs inflamed with disagreeable fores ; I have heard of many young men's legs ?
الصفحة 24
When you chance to get wet , which you ofteri will , be careful to change your apparel as soon as poslible , for wet clothes . remaining on till they dry will restrain perspiration , and may bring on an ague ; when your feet get wet ...
When you chance to get wet , which you ofteri will , be careful to change your apparel as soon as poslible , for wet clothes . remaining on till they dry will restrain perspiration , and may bring on an ague ; when your feet get wet ...
الصفحة 48
As soon as the liquor in the grand copper comes to a finmering , the fire is damped , till all the dirt and traih which gathers to the top is skimmed off with a flat copper skimmer , full of holes like a fieve ; after the liquor is ...
As soon as the liquor in the grand copper comes to a finmering , the fire is damped , till all the dirt and traih which gathers to the top is skimmed off with a flat copper skimmer , full of holes like a fieve ; after the liquor is ...
الصفحة 52
... to have trash burnt in them , and scalded and washed quite clean . As soon as the vat which receives the skimmings from the boiling - house ( which are conveyed by a gutter ) is full , they are put into a large cooler to cool ...
... to have trash burnt in them , and scalded and washed quite clean . As soon as the vat which receives the skimmings from the boiling - house ( which are conveyed by a gutter ) is full , they are put into a large cooler to cool ...
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