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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... speak from experience , for I was five years in that island ; and should what I shall offer , prove any way instrumental in promoting your happiness , I shall hereafter feel a secret fatisfaction for hav- ing employed a few vacant hours ...
... speak from experience , for I was five years in that island ; and should what I shall offer , prove any way instrumental in promoting your happiness , I shall hereafter feel a secret fatisfaction for hav- ing employed a few vacant hours ...
الصفحة 42
J. B. Moreton. The pastures , particularly the Guinea grass , of which I shall speak more fully hereafter , are ex- cellent for fattening horfes and cattle . Travellers have been as well pleased with the beef , mutton , pork , and ...
J. B. Moreton. The pastures , particularly the Guinea grass , of which I shall speak more fully hereafter , are ex- cellent for fattening horfes and cattle . Travellers have been as well pleased with the beef , mutton , pork , and ...
الصفحة 60
... speak from expe- rience , not from prejudice ; and that I will give merit or vice the wreath or the rod . All people are regarded according to their appearance and merit ( fave only country pre- judice ) more than in Great - Britain and ...
... speak from expe- rience , not from prejudice ; and that I will give merit or vice the wreath or the rod . All people are regarded according to their appearance and merit ( fave only country pre- judice ) more than in Great - Britain and ...
الصفحة 79
... speak of either in future , I shall call them overseers and book - keepers . Overseers all over Jamaica are generally Euro- peans , and get falaries from 100 to £ 300 fter- ling per annum , and are accommodated with comfortable houses ...
... speak of either in future , I shall call them overseers and book - keepers . Overseers all over Jamaica are generally Euro- peans , and get falaries from 100 to £ 300 fter- ling per annum , and are accommodated with comfortable houses ...
الصفحة 102
... speaking to himself in private , to argue with some degree of logic and graceful oratory ; not to follow the precepts of his caliloo , or pedling little minded brethren , when they meet in affembly , chattering of canes and corn pieces ...
... speaking to himself in private , to argue with some degree of logic and graceful oratory ; not to follow the precepts of his caliloo , or pedling little minded brethren , when they meet in affembly , chattering of canes and corn pieces ...
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