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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... ftrong , that fmall boats would be dafhed to pieces if great 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 ...
... ftrong , that fmall boats would be dafhed to pieces if great 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 ...
الصفحة 15
... ftrong liquors given in generous portions to the failors ; and when they meet with griping low- life paffengers , woe betide them ! They will not only shave them with a rusty iron hoop , but lather them with pitch and tar , and duck ...
... ftrong liquors given in generous portions to the failors ; and when they meet with griping low- life paffengers , woe betide them ! They will not only shave them with a rusty iron hoop , but lather them with pitch and tar , and duck ...
الصفحة 25
... ftrong and faft , like the ticking of a watch ; when you feel a beating or reeling in your head ; a weakness in your eyes ; pains in your neck , back , fhoulders , or knees ; when your perfpiration fmells ftrong and dif- agreeable to ...
... ftrong and faft , like the ticking of a watch ; when you feel a beating or reeling in your head ; a weakness in your eyes ; pains in your neck , back , fhoulders , or knees ; when your perfpiration fmells ftrong and dif- agreeable to ...
الصفحة 35
... ftrong the duft rarifies fo abundantly , that a perfon paffing cannot fee the houses nor paf- fengers , nor can he , but with much difficulty , pre- ferve his eye - fight . There are fome good taverns , coffee - houses , and lodging ...
... ftrong the duft rarifies fo abundantly , that a perfon paffing cannot fee the houses nor paf- fengers , nor can he , but with much difficulty , pre- ferve his eye - fight . There are fome good taverns , coffee - houses , and lodging ...
الصفحة 46
... juice out of the canes : Suffice it to fay , that a large fhingled roof , of a conical form , about 30 feet diameter , being fupported by twelve or fixteen Strong ftrong hard wood pofts , fix or feven feet high 46 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... juice out of the canes : Suffice it to fay , that a large fhingled roof , of a conical form , about 30 feet diameter , being fupported by twelve or fixteen Strong ftrong hard wood pofts , fix or feven feet high 46 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
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