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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... , forcing the inhabitants , like the Egyptians at the overflowing of the Nile , with their flaves and live ftock , to take fhelter in the mountains 1 mountains until the waters abate ; thefe heavy rains 38 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... , forcing the inhabitants , like the Egyptians at the overflowing of the Nile , with their flaves and live ftock , to take fhelter in the mountains 1 mountains until the waters abate ; thefe heavy rains 38 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 57
... ftock , & c . will coft 30 or 40,000l . ) ; which fum of 26,000l . at 8 per cent . interest is 20801 . which , added to the annual expence , is 28801 . Now , fuppofing the eftate to be well managed , and to make upon an average one ...
... ftock , & c . will coft 30 or 40,000l . ) ; which fum of 26,000l . at 8 per cent . interest is 20801 . which , added to the annual expence , is 28801 . Now , fuppofing the eftate to be well managed , and to make upon an average one ...
الصفحة 59
... ftock , and amount to 6520l .; twenty negroes , at 401. each ; the manager's house and ftores , ftables , fhades , and penes , fuppofe to coft 2500l . all which added , is 98201 .; but fuppofing the whole to coft 12,000l . which is not ...
... ftock , and amount to 6520l .; twenty negroes , at 401. each ; the manager's house and ftores , ftables , fhades , and penes , fuppofe to coft 2500l . all which added , is 98201 .; but fuppofing the whole to coft 12,000l . which is not ...
الصفحة 62
... ftock , are only to be met with on Sundays . I once had occafion to wait on an honorable gen- tleman of this kind in St. James ' parish ; the gate being locked , I knocked feveral times ; but how great was my furprize when a mufket ball ...
... ftock , are only to be met with on Sundays . I once had occafion to wait on an honorable gen- tleman of this kind in St. James ' parish ; the gate being locked , I knocked feveral times ; but how great was my furprize when a mufket ball ...
الصفحة 71
... ftock ; he fhould visit the boiling - house frequently ; ftand at the tack whole hours , at times , to fee how the boilers went on , and when they went wrong di- rect them and fet them right ; he fhould not fupport managers without ...
... ftock ; he fhould visit the boiling - house frequently ; ftand at the tack whole hours , at times , to fee how the boilers went on , and when they went wrong di- rect them and fet them right ; he fhould not fupport managers without ...
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