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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Wherein we can swiftly and securely travel in defiance of the winds and waves , over the most dreadful monsters of the deep , and visit the remotest quarters of the globe . ! “ Eye natures walks , shoot folly as it flies , “ And catch ...
Wherein we can swiftly and securely travel in defiance of the winds and waves , over the most dreadful monsters of the deep , and visit the remotest quarters of the globe . ! “ Eye natures walks , shoot folly as it flies , “ And catch ...
الصفحة 11
It was always a most pleasing satisfaction to me when in one of those Aoating habitations , in the midst of feeming danger , thinking momently she would overset , to find her steadily return to her original position , and force her way ...
It was always a most pleasing satisfaction to me when in one of those Aoating habitations , in the midst of feeming danger , thinking momently she would overset , to find her steadily return to her original position , and force her way ...
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Of all the diseases poor mortals are subje & t tog dry belly - achs are attended with the most excrutiating torture ; it is impossible to conceive the extreme pain and agony the patient suffers in one hour : nothing but the pains of ...
Of all the diseases poor mortals are subje & t tog dry belly - achs are attended with the most excrutiating torture ; it is impossible to conceive the extreme pain and agony the patient suffers in one hour : nothing but the pains of ...
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... two hundred fifty nine thousand saves , eighty thousand one hundred cattle , and twenty five thousand white people on the island : There are more than one hundred rivers in Jamaica , the most considerable of which are Mina and Cobre ...
... two hundred fifty nine thousand saves , eighty thousand one hundred cattle , and twenty five thousand white people on the island : There are more than one hundred rivers in Jamaica , the most considerable of which are Mina and Cobre ...
الصفحة 41
... and are always vocal with the music of variety of birds , particularly parrots , paroquets , wood - peckers , and doves of various kinds : the mournful cooing of the latter thrills most charmingly through the ears .
... and are always vocal with the music of variety of birds , particularly parrots , paroquets , wood - peckers , and doves of various kinds : the mournful cooing of the latter thrills most charmingly through the ears .
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almoſt alſo appear attend attorney beſt better book-keepers buſineſs called canes carry cattle cent commonly corn cowſkin Creole cure drink eight eſtate eyes favour feet field firſt five follows fond four frequently friends gentlemen give ground hands heart hero himſelf houſe human hundred ignorant iſland Jamaica juſtice keep kind known ladies leaſt liquor live manager manner maſter means merchants mind miſs Mongrel morning moſt muſt nature Naves negroes never night obliged obſerve once overſeers pain particularly perſon plantation planting pleaſe poor reſpect ſame ſay ſee ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall ſome ſoon ſtock ſuch ſugar taken themſelves theſe thing thoſe thouſand till town turn uſe waſhed Weſt Indies whole wine wiſh women woods young yourſelf