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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الصفحة 41
... appearing to touch the cloud - capt towers , and are always vocal with the mufic of variety of birds , particularly parrots , paroquets , wood - peckers , and doves of various kinds the mournful cooing of the latter thrills moft ...
... appearing to touch the cloud - capt towers , and are always vocal with the mufic of variety of birds , particularly parrots , paroquets , wood - peckers , and doves of various kinds the mournful cooing of the latter thrills moft ...
الصفحة 45
... 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 a planter , will know when they are ripe by the appearance of the ...
... 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 a planter , will know when they are ripe by the appearance of the ...
الصفحة 49
... , or five years : He may attempt it , but how infignificant and auk- ward muft a man appear , who attempts or un- dertakes a bufinefs he knows nothing about ; he - may may think , and fay , " My overfeers and IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 49.
... , or five years : He may attempt it , but how infignificant and auk- ward muft a man appear , who attempts or un- dertakes a bufinefs he knows nothing about ; he - may may think , and fay , " My overfeers and IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 49.
الصفحة 89
... appear as an angel amongst naked rude blacks , and attract her husband to fquander that time which should be devoted to plantation duty in a more delightful manner ; fo that batchelors fare beft , on which account they keep black or ...
... appear as an angel amongst naked rude blacks , and attract her husband to fquander that time which should be devoted to plantation duty in a more delightful manner ; fo that batchelors fare beft , on which account they keep black or ...
الصفحة 92
... appear- ance will recommend him in the country , for overfeers are glad to get green - horns , because they can impofe hardships on them , and make them fubferviant to their interefts . Here I must observe , that letters of ...
... appear- ance will recommend him in the country , for overfeers are glad to get green - horns , because they can impofe hardships on them , and make them fubferviant to their interefts . Here I must observe , that letters of ...
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