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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We then with difficulty got alhore , the swell or surf at the beech being always so strong , that small boats would be dashed to pieces if great care was not taken to keep them a float fome distance from the shore : people passing and ...
We then with difficulty got alhore , the swell or surf at the beech being always so strong , that small boats would be dashed to pieces if great care was not taken to keep them a float fome distance from the shore : people passing and ...
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... do not make free with them , that is , to be chatcering to them , or asking foolish questions on deck , or elsewhere : keep them at a proper distance , and they will respect and serve ) BA town , if 1 of you , but behave familiar.
... do not make free with them , that is , to be chatcering to them , or asking foolish questions on deck , or elsewhere : keep them at a proper distance , and they will respect and serve ) BA town , if 1 of you , but behave familiar.
الصفحة 21
... and keeps a fmall bool in the sick house , in which he enters the dif ferent receipts for the fick negroes , which the ma nager or overseer reads to fome old black mano woman who attends them . I shall here give an extract , which ...
... and keeps a fmall bool in the sick house , in which he enters the dif ferent receipts for the fick negroes , which the ma nager or overseer reads to fome old black mano woman who attends them . I shall here give an extract , which ...
الصفحة 24
... till it is over ; and at working hours , when thus obliged to Thun the weather , do not keep loitering about the half or piazza , for it may be displeasing to your employer ; therefore retire to your room and read some good book .
... till it is over ; and at working hours , when thus obliged to Thun the weather , do not keep loitering about the half or piazza , for it may be displeasing to your employer ; therefore retire to your room and read some good book .
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... both Scotch and Irish keep up that ancient , honourable , and friendly fociety monthly , and celebrate Saint Andrew's and Saint Patrick's days yearly , by going in procession to church , and having fermons preached on the occasion ...
... both Scotch and Irish keep up that ancient , honourable , and friendly fociety monthly , and celebrate Saint Andrew's and Saint Patrick's days yearly , by going in procession to church , and having fermons preached on the occasion ...
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