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 23
... therefore strenuously recommend it to you to avoid heats and colds , rains , heavy fogs , mifts , or dews , as niuch as possible , as well as getting your feet wet , for they are the forerunners of almost innumerable diseases .
... therefore strenuously recommend it to you to avoid heats and colds , rains , heavy fogs , mifts , or dews , as niuch as possible , as well as getting your feet wet , for they are the forerunners of almost innumerable diseases .
الصفحة 24
... and may bring on an ague ; when your feet get wet , though you be far from any house , take off your shoes and stockings , wash them and let them dry , and then put them on again ; and if you wish to enjoy the pleasure and benefit ...
... and may bring on an ague ; when your feet get wet , though you be far from any house , take off your shoes and stockings , wash them and let them dry , and then put them on again ; and if you wish to enjoy the pleasure and benefit ...
الصفحة 38
... and the whoļe county of Cornwall , were almost destroyed by an hurricane and heavy rains , Mina rote about thirty feet high in fome places ; this I was convinced of after the flood abated , by observing part of a negro hut and other ...
... and the whoļe county of Cornwall , were almost destroyed by an hurricane and heavy rains , Mina rote about thirty feet high in fome places ; this I was convinced of after the flood abated , by observing part of a negro hut and other ...
الصفحة 39
I myself once beheld them trembling all round me , and their rocky ftupendous tops precipitating their rugged cliffs ; I saw the fea rise several feet beyond its usual bounds , and swallow up valuable stores and wharfs ; nay , it has ...
I myself once beheld them trembling all round me , and their rocky ftupendous tops precipitating their rugged cliffs ; I saw the fea rise several feet beyond its usual bounds , and swallow up valuable stores and wharfs ; nay , it has ...
الصفحة 42
The piece of ground intended for canes is first cleared of all shrubbery , and lined , if level , from one end to the other , as fttrait as posible with a line and square : the line is is marked at every seven or eight feet with a 42 ...
The piece of ground intended for canes is first cleared of all shrubbery , and lined , if level , from one end to the other , as fttrait as posible with a line and square : the line is is marked at every seven or eight feet with a 42 ...
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almoſt alſo appear attend attorney beſt better book-keepers buſineſs called canes carry cattle cent commonly corn cowſkin Creole cure drink eight eſtate eyes favour feet field firſt five follows fond four frequently friends gentlemen give ground hands heart hero himſelf houſe human hundred ignorant iſland Jamaica juſtice keep kind known ladies leaſt liquor live manager manner maſter means merchants mind miſs Mongrel morning moſt muſt nature Naves negroes never night obliged obſerve once overſeers pain particularly perſon plantation planting pleaſe poor reſpect ſame ſay ſee ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall ſome ſoon ſtock ſuch ſugar taken themſelves theſe thing thoſe thouſand till town turn uſe waſhed Weſt Indies whole wine wiſh women woods young yourſelf