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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... give you some instructions and advice respecting both ; I shall speak from experience , 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 ...
... give you some instructions and advice respecting both ; I shall speak from experience , 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 ...
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J. B. Moreton. As you probably , may call at Madiera , I will give you an idea of that fmall Island by an extract from my journal . As foon as we came to anchor oppofite Madeira , a fmall African ifland , fituated in about 32o , N ...
J. B. Moreton. As you probably , may call at Madiera , I will give you an idea of that fmall Island by an extract from my journal . As foon as we came to anchor oppofite Madeira , a fmall African ifland , fituated in about 32o , N ...
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... give life to others . I was hurt very much whenever I faw any of their bald - pated hypocritical guardians , called fryars : thofe artful dogs are numerous , and frequently parade the ftreets in proceffion with an air of folemnity ; the ...
... give life to others . I was hurt very much whenever I faw any of their bald - pated hypocritical guardians , called fryars : thofe artful dogs are numerous , and frequently parade the ftreets in proceffion with an air of folemnity ; the ...
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... give a bottle amongst them , let it be done after fome fevere toil , or bad weather , having previously got the confent of the captain , or mate , leaft they get drunk and neglect their duty , and you should be blamed . I love failors ...
... give a bottle amongst them , let it be done after fome fevere toil , or bad weather , having previously got the confent of the captain , or mate , leaft they get drunk and neglect their duty , and you should be blamed . I love failors ...
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... give fuch light that you may read a book thereby , You will afo be furrounded by another kind of infects , about the fize of midges , called mufquittoes , buzzing in your ears their difagreeable tunes : they have long tubes or ftings ...
... give fuch light that you may read a book thereby , You will afo be furrounded by another kind of infects , about the fize of midges , called mufquittoes , buzzing in your ears their difagreeable tunes : they have long tubes or ftings ...
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