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 particles 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 particles 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
... four , or five years : He may attempt it , -but how infignificant and aukward must a man appear , who attempts or undertakes a business he knows nothing about ; he may may think , and fay , " My overfeers and IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 49.
... four , or five years : He may attempt it , -but how infignificant and aukward must a man appear , who attempts or undertakes a business 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 fhould 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 fhould be devoted to plantation duty in a more delightful manner ; fo that batchelors fare beft , on which account they keep black or ...
الصفحة 98
... appears in the manner clerks generally do ; nay , it will be good œco nomy if he keeps himfelf clear of debt ; clerks drefs more fashionable and gay than overfeers or book - keepers , and fhift once or twice daily . Board and lodging in ...
... appears in the manner clerks generally do ; nay , it will be good œco nomy if he keeps himfelf clear of debt ; clerks drefs more fashionable and gay than overfeers or book - keepers , and fhift once or twice daily . Board and lodging in ...
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