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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... 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 fel- 12 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... 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 fel- 12 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
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J. B. Moreton. to and from their boats ; feveral lufty yellow fel- lows ftand naked from morning ' till night for that purpose , and are well paid by the different paffengers . The chief produce for exportation is wine of an excellent ...
J. B. Moreton. to and from their boats ; feveral lufty yellow fel- lows ftand naked from morning ' till night for that purpose , and are well paid by the different paffengers . The chief produce for exportation is wine of an excellent ...
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... feveral of the English merchants there , and treated with much hofpita- lity and politenefs ; they have delicious fruit , and every luxury they can wish for . I took a ride to the English Conful's , which is a mile from town , where he ...
... feveral of the English merchants there , and treated with much hofpita- lity and politenefs ; they have delicious fruit , and every luxury they can wish for . I took a ride to the English Conful's , which is a mile from town , where he ...
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... feveral months afterwards laughed at by the neighbouring cowskin heroes . When fick and languid on my bed I lay , In fainting fits the live long night and day , By a vile quack , condemn'd at once to die , " He's past all cure " -a ...
... feveral months afterwards laughed at by the neighbouring cowskin heroes . When fick and languid on my bed I lay , In fainting fits the live long night and day , By a vile quack , condemn'd at once to die , " He's past all cure " -a ...
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... feveral weeks upon a fickly couch ; when a perfon is confined to his bed , fome careful , difcreet , black woman , should be appointed to at- tend him all day and night . Therefore let me re- queft , that when you find yourself ...
... feveral weeks upon a fickly couch ; when a perfon is confined to his bed , fome careful , difcreet , black woman , should be appointed to at- tend him all day and night . Therefore let me re- queft , that when you find yourself ...
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