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 Edition |
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الصفحة 46
I fay , when all thefe , and many other matters , are not confidered of and prepared in time , if the canes are ripe , and dry weather enfues , they will turn red , or ( as they fay ) get burnt ; after which , though they must be cut to ...
I fay , when all thefe , and many other matters , are not confidered of and prepared in time , if the canes are ripe , and dry weather enfues , they will turn red , or ( as they fay ) get burnt ; after which , though they must be cut to ...
الصفحة 58
Not many years ago , grafs - penns were confidered as defpicable objects for enterprizing adventurers to hunt after , nor would any man accept the management of one who had any hopes of preferment on fugar plantations , because the ...
Not many years ago , grafs - penns were confidered as defpicable objects for enterprizing adventurers to hunt after , nor would any man accept the management of one who had any hopes of preferment on fugar plantations , because the ...
الصفحة 59
... would be confidered a good stock , and amount to 6520l .; twenty negroes , at 401. each ; the manager's house and stores , ftables , fhades , and penes , fuppofe to coft 2500l . all which added , is 98201 .; but fuppofing the whole ...
... would be confidered a good stock , and amount to 6520l .; twenty negroes , at 401. each ; the manager's house and stores , ftables , fhades , and penes , fuppofe to coft 2500l . all which added , is 98201 .; but fuppofing the whole ...
الصفحة 85
... he was remarkably polite and attentive in getting them fprightly bedfellows , for he had a feraglio of fine wenches at command , and was confidered the most obliging , fimple , good natured , pimple fellow exifting .
... he was remarkably polite and attentive in getting them fprightly bedfellows , for he had a feraglio of fine wenches at command , and was confidered the most obliging , fimple , good natured , pimple fellow exifting .
الصفحة 97
He commonly gives his first year's falary for a horse ; for though in the Windward Islands gentlemen ride mules , it would be confidered a difgrace in Jamaica for the poorest man to ride one ; his fecond year's falary goes to the ...
He commonly gives his first year's falary for a horse ; for though in the Windward Islands gentlemen ride mules , it would be confidered a difgrace in Jamaica for the poorest man to ride one ; his fecond year's falary goes to the ...
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