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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... subject to dry belly - achs are attended with the most excru- tiating torture ; it is impossible to conceive the extreme pain and agony the patient suffers in one hour : nothing but the pains of hell can equal it . Castor oil , which ...
... subject to dry belly - achs are attended with the most excru- tiating torture ; it is impossible to conceive the extreme pain and agony the patient suffers in one hour : nothing but the pains of hell can equal it . Castor oil , which ...
الصفحة 60
... subject , and proceed to the natives ; and though I may be severe in the following pages against many , be assured , I will speak from expe- rience , not from prejudice ; and that I will give merit or vice the wreath or the rod . All ...
... subject , and proceed to the natives ; and though I may be severe in the following pages against many , be assured , I will speak from expe- rience , not from prejudice ; and that I will give merit or vice the wreath or the rod . All ...
الصفحة 89
... subjects of the planting herd . The life of an overseer is by no means a life of ease or content ; though he may at times indulge himself in every vicious practice , yet , while he fits an hour extraordinary after dinner with his ...
... subjects of the planting herd . The life of an overseer is by no means a life of ease or content ; though he may at times indulge himself in every vicious practice , yet , while he fits an hour extraordinary after dinner with his ...
الصفحة 95
... subject to the yaws , a dif- temper very distructive amongst them , they should be rubbed every morning , when they have this in- fection , with roast limes and brine . It is also neceffary to examine the sheep , goats , and swine every ...
... subject to the yaws , a dif- temper very distructive amongst them , they should be rubbed every morning , when they have this in- fection , with roast limes and brine . It is also neceffary to examine the sheep , goats , and swine every ...
الصفحة 102
... subject , least they pay dear for it . When a man gets into the assembly , or be- comes one of the council , he should study the laws of the island , and the profperity of the peo- ple in general , and learn by speaking to himself in ...
... subject , least they pay dear for it . When a man gets into the assembly , or be- comes one of the council , he should study the laws of the island , and the profperity of the peo- ple in general , and learn by speaking to himself in ...
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