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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... a few days ; I am forry that I never could learn any cure for that naufeous difagreeable ma- lady but to eat and drink , and to walk the deck . B as . as much as poffible ; vomits and purgatives occa MANNERS AND CUSTOMS ...
... a few days ; I am forry that I never could learn any cure for that naufeous difagreeable ma- lady but to eat and drink , and to walk the deck . B as . as much as poffible ; vomits and purgatives occa MANNERS AND CUSTOMS ...
الصفحة 34
... ladies and gentlemen . hold publick balls and affemblies ; there are also two free mason lodges , to wit , Saint Andrew's and Saint Patrick's ; both Scotch and Irish keep up that ancient , honourable , and friendly fociety monthly , and ...
... ladies and gentlemen . hold publick balls and affemblies ; there are also two free mason lodges , to wit , Saint Andrew's and Saint Patrick's ; both Scotch and Irish keep up that ancient , honourable , and friendly fociety monthly , and ...
الصفحة 36
... ladies and gentlemen , fuperbly decorated in fineries ; the fpoils of war , plundered from infa tuated tars ; this is quite common ; nay , people of every rank and denomination , to their shame , devote the fabbaths to every kind of ...
... ladies and gentlemen , fuperbly decorated in fineries ; the fpoils of war , plundered from infa tuated tars ; this is quite common ; nay , people of every rank and denomination , to their shame , devote the fabbaths to every kind of ...
الصفحة 62
... re- ceived very politely ; he made feveral apologies for his rafhnefs ; that he took me to be a mar- fhal , & c . & c . He had an elegant house , and a fine fine parcel of creole ladies about him , and they MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... re- ceived very politely ; he made feveral apologies for his rafhnefs ; that he took me to be a mar- fhal , & c . & c . He had an elegant house , and a fine fine parcel of creole ladies about him , and they MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 63
J. B. Moreton. fine parcel of creole ladies about him , and they lived most luxuriously , in defiance of the law ! There is a law of the island favouring infolvent debtors , by which any perfon in the space of three months , by rendering ...
J. B. Moreton. fine parcel of creole ladies about him , and they lived most luxuriously , in defiance of the law ! There is a law of the island favouring infolvent debtors , by which any perfon in the space of three months , by rendering ...
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