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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... great care was not taken to keep them a float fome diftance from the fhore : people paffing and repaffing , are obliged to be carried on men's fhoulders to to and from their boats ; feveral lufty yellow fellows 12 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... great care was not taken to keep them a float fome diftance from the fhore : people paffing and repaffing , are obliged to be carried on men's fhoulders to to and from their boats ; feveral lufty yellow fellows 12 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 36
... carrying with them the product of their grounds ; for every negro cultivates a small lot of land for his own use , which they fell to purchase hats , gowns , fhirts , trowfars , daucafes or fhifts , trinkets and paitry baubles , to give ...
... carrying with them the product of their grounds ; for every negro cultivates a small lot of land for his own use , which they fell to purchase hats , gowns , fhirts , trowfars , daucafes or fhifts , trinkets and paitry baubles , to give ...
الصفحة 42
... carried away . The fea and rivers abound with great variety of excellent fish . In wet weather there are plenty of duck and teale to be met with in every pond and gulley , and in all feasons , partridges , quails , Guinea - hens ...
... carried away . The fea and rivers abound with great variety of excellent fish . In wet weather there are plenty of duck and teale to be met with in every pond and gulley , and in all feasons , partridges , quails , Guinea - hens ...
الصفحة 44
... carrying cane tops , grafs and vines to them . The cattle and mules are shifted nightly from penn to penn , till their ... carry the dung on boards or baskets on their heads , and fpread it thinly in the holes . Mountainous plantations ...
... carrying cane tops , grafs and vines to them . The cattle and mules are shifted nightly from penn to penn , till their ... carry the dung on boards or baskets on their heads , and fpread it thinly in the holes . Mountainous plantations ...
الصفحة 47
... carried in wanes , or if the eftate is mountainous , on mules backs , to the mill , and are put in small quantities ( fix or feven at a time ) between the first and second roller , and are drawn in and flattened , fo that the juice is ...
... carried in wanes , or if the eftate is mountainous , on mules backs , to the mill , and are put in small quantities ( fix or feven at a time ) between the first and second roller , and are drawn in and flattened , fo that the juice is ...
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