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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... muft follow ; when a fever is intermittant , and attended with an ague , it is not thought dangerous ; the cure chiefly depends upon emetics and purges , with plenty of bark taken when the hot fit is over . Proper attendance is ...
... muft follow ; when a fever is intermittant , and attended with an ague , it is not thought dangerous ; the cure chiefly depends upon emetics and purges , with plenty of bark taken when the hot fit is over . Proper attendance is ...
الصفحة 49
... five years : He may attempt it , but how infignificant and auk- ward muft a man appear , who attempts or un- dertakes a bufinefs he knows nothing about ; he - may may think , and fay , " My overfeers and IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 49.
... five years : He may attempt it , but how infignificant and auk- ward muft a man appear , who attempts or un- dertakes a bufinefs he knows nothing about ; he - may may think , and fay , " My overfeers and IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 49.
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... muft ferve his time ; dur- ing which painful period , if he does not humbly cringe , fawn , flatter , lie and diffemble , and bear all the overfeer's infults and reproaches tamely without murmering , he need never ex- pect to fucceed ...
... muft ferve his time ; dur- ing which painful period , if he does not humbly cringe , fawn , flatter , lie and diffemble , and bear all the overfeer's infults and reproaches tamely without murmering , he need never ex- pect to fucceed ...
الصفحة 95
... muft every morning enter in his book the number of each kind that are with egg , leaft the ftock - house woman deceives him ; and though you will think all this a very menial part of duty , which I cer- tainly think it is the greatest ...
... muft every morning enter in his book the number of each kind that are with egg , leaft the ftock - house woman deceives him ; and though you will think all this a very menial part of duty , which I cer- tainly think it is the greatest ...
الصفحة 96
... muft ftand by and direct a negroe how to falt it ; and as it is very difficult to preferve meat three or four days , the best method I ever could learn , was to have a tub , ( half a puncheon ) with a falfe bottom full of holes , or a ...
... muft ftand by and direct a negroe how to falt it ; and as it is very difficult to preferve meat three or four days , the best method I ever could learn , was to have a tub , ( half a puncheon ) with a falfe bottom full of holes , or a ...
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