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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الصفحة 13
... whenever I saw any of them peeping through their horrid iron grates -- I suppose it is a passage in St. Paul that induces them to live this recluse life , where he recommends a'married life , but says , “ a single life is better ” .
... whenever I saw any of them peeping through their horrid iron grates -- I suppose it is a passage in St. Paul that induces them to live this recluse life , where he recommends a'married life , but says , “ a single life is better ” .
الصفحة 20
Emetic had acquainted the manager that I was putrid , and would not live two hours , and directed him to bury me the moment the breath was out of me , as my disorder was taking ; upon which the creeping scoundrel ordered a coffin to be ...
Emetic had acquainted the manager that I was putrid , and would not live two hours , and directed him to bury me the moment the breath was out of me , as my disorder was taking ; upon which the creeping scoundrel ordered a coffin to be ...
الصفحة 31
... such as vegetables of all kinds , falc and smoked meats , fpirits , beer and spices , and to live as temperate and low as poffible ; bread , penada , barley gruel , lintseed tea , and such like , should be your only nourishment for ...
... such as vegetables of all kinds , falc and smoked meats , fpirits , beer and spices , and to live as temperate and low as poffible ; bread , penada , barley gruel , lintseed tea , and such like , should be your only nourishment for ...
الصفحة 38
... low plantations under deluges of water , forcing the inhabitants , like the Egyptians at the overflowing of the Nile , with their Naves and live stock , to take thelter in the mountains until the waters abate ; these heavy rains are.
... low plantations under deluges of water , forcing the inhabitants , like the Egyptians at the overflowing of the Nile , with their Naves and live stock , to take thelter in the mountains until the waters abate ; these heavy rains are.
الصفحة 60
There are some fine penns in the parish of St. Ann's , where many of the proprietors reside , and live content and happy . I shall conclude this subject , and proceed to the natives ; and though I may be severe in the following pages ...
There are some fine penns in the parish of St. Ann's , where many of the proprietors reside , and live content and happy . I shall conclude this subject , and proceed to the natives ; and though I may be severe in the following pages ...
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