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 afhore , the fwell or furf at the beech being always fo 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 ...
We then with difficulty got afhore , the fwell or furf at the beech being always fo 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 ...
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... to be chattering to them , or asking foolish queftions on deck , or elsewhere : keep them at a proper distance , and they will refpect and ferve you , B 4 you , but behave familiar to them and they will IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS .
... to be chattering to them , or asking foolish queftions on deck , or elsewhere : keep them at a proper distance , and they will refpect and ferve you , B 4 you , but behave familiar to them and they will IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS .
الصفحة 21
... and keeps a fmall bool in the fick houfe , in which he enters the dif ferent receipts for the fick negroes , which the ma nager or overfeer reads to fome old black man o woman who attends them . I fhall here give an extract , which ...
... and keeps a fmall bool in the fick houfe , in which he enters the dif ferent receipts for the fick negroes , which the ma nager or overfeer reads to fome old black man o woman who attends them . I fhall here give an extract , which ...
الصفحة 24
Should you enter into business in the country , when you fee an impending shower , haften to your home , or to fome hut , or place of shelter , till it is over ; and at working hours , when thus obliged to fhun the weather , do not keep ...
Should you enter into business in the country , when you fee an impending shower , haften to your home , or to fome hut , or place of shelter , till it is over ; and at working hours , when thus obliged to fhun the weather , do not keep ...
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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 proceffion to church , and having fermons preached on the occafion ...
... 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 proceffion to church , and having fermons preached on the occafion ...
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