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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... kind of infects , about the fize of midges , called mus- quittoes , buzzing in your ears their disagreeable tunes : they have long tubes or ftings , which they pierce through clothes or ftockings till they get to the blood ; the ...
... kind of infects , about the fize of midges , called mus- quittoes , buzzing in your ears their disagreeable tunes : they have long tubes or ftings , which they pierce through clothes or ftockings till they get to the blood ; the ...
الصفحة 36
... kind of vice and dif- fipation ; driving like madmen in kitterines , to and from Spanish Town , round Kingston , to Rochfort , Liguanea , and the beautiful village of Halfway Tree , feafting , drinking , gambling , or in the company of ...
... kind of vice and dif- fipation ; driving like madmen in kitterines , to and from Spanish Town , round Kingston , to Rochfort , Liguanea , and the beautiful village of Halfway Tree , feafting , drinking , gambling , or in the company of ...
الصفحة 41
... kind , and frequently wild hogs ; the latter are excellent when barbacued maroon fashion . The country is exceeding fer- tile , and produces abundance of fruit and vege- tables , fuch as citrons , pomegranates , Seville and China ...
... kind , and frequently wild hogs ; the latter are excellent when barbacued maroon fashion . The country is exceeding fer- tile , and produces abundance of fruit and vege- tables , fuch as citrons , pomegranates , Seville and China ...
الصفحة 59
... or 60l . an ox for 201. a fat fheep for 40s . and after the first four or five years , I fhould fuppofe a penn of this kind would annually have E 2 forty forty colts , forty oxen , and one hundred fheep IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 59.
... or 60l . an ox for 201. a fat fheep for 40s . and after the first four or five years , I fhould fuppofe a penn of this kind would annually have E 2 forty forty colts , forty oxen , and one hundred fheep IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 59.
الصفحة 62
... kind in St. James ' parish ; the gate being locked , I knocked feveral times ; but how great was my furprize when a mufket ball came whistling by my ears ; a negroe came running to me , and faid , " Maffa will fhoot you ' tone dead if ...
... kind in St. James ' parish ; the gate being locked , I knocked feveral times ; but how great was my furprize when a mufket ball came whistling by my ears ; a negroe came running to me , and faid , " Maffa will fhoot you ' tone dead if ...
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