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 9
... for I was five years in that ifland ; and fhould what I fhall offer , prove any way inftrumental in promoting your happiness , I fhall hereafter feel a fecret fatisfaction for having employed a few vacant hours fo well .
... for I was five years in that ifland ; and fhould what I fhall offer , prove any way inftrumental in promoting your happiness , I fhall hereafter feel a fecret fatisfaction for having employed a few vacant hours fo well .
الصفحة 13
The capital is Fonchial , and contains about five hundred houses ; the natives are Portuguese , and drefs in the fame uniform of their custom - houfe officers ; their characteristic is , that they are poor , proud , fuperftitious and ...
The capital is Fonchial , and contains about five hundred houses ; the natives are Portuguese , and drefs in the fame uniform of their custom - houfe officers ; their characteristic is , that they are poor , proud , fuperftitious and ...
الصفحة 15
They will not only fhave them with a rusty iron hoop , but lather them with pitch and tar , and duck them in the fea , till they had wifhed that they never were born ; fo that it will be neceffary to lay in five or fix gallons of rum ...
They will not only fhave them with a rusty iron hoop , but lather them with pitch and tar , and duck them in the fea , till they had wifhed that they never were born ; fo that it will be neceffary to lay in five or fix gallons of rum ...
الصفحة 16
On your arrival at Port - Royal , the negroes in fmall canoes , or bom - boats , coming along fide the fhip with coffee , fruit , and vegetables , will attract your attention ; but when you get up to Kingftown , if you had five more ...
On your arrival at Port - Royal , the negroes in fmall canoes , or bom - boats , coming along fide the fhip with coffee , fruit , and vegetables , will attract your attention ; but when you get up to Kingftown , if you had five more ...
الصفحة 21
The common charge for each negroe whether they are fick or well , is five fhillings yearly , befides the benefit of venereals , for which he makes a feparate charge , fo that he commonly gets about one hundred , or one hundred and fifty ...
The common charge for each negroe whether they are fick or well , is five fhillings yearly , befides the benefit of venereals , for which he makes a feparate charge , fo that he commonly gets about one hundred , or one hundred and fifty ...
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