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 15
... lay in five or fix gallons of rum more than your sea - stock for that day , and to take about ten gallons more to distribute occasionally to the sailors ; it is the only way to gain their affections ; but observe , whenever you wish ...
... lay in five or fix gallons of rum more than your sea - stock for that day , and to take about ten gallons more to distribute occasionally to the sailors ; it is the only way to gain their affections ; but observe , whenever you wish ...
الصفحة 38
... were almost destroyed by an hurricane and heavy rains , Mina rote about thirty feet high in fome places ; this I was convinced of after the flood abated , by observing part of a negro hut and other wreck , stuck fast ...
... were almost destroyed by an hurricane and heavy rains , Mina rote about thirty feet high in fome places ; this I was convinced of after the flood abated , by observing part of a negro hut and other wreck , stuck fast ...
الصفحة 45
... or by cutting some of them with a sharp knife , and observing the grain : if it appears . soft and moist , like a potatoe or turnip , it is too green : but if dry , and white particles appear , you may be sure that the cane is ripe ...
... or by cutting some of them with a sharp knife , and observing the grain : if it appears . soft and moist , like a potatoe or turnip , it is too green : but if dry , and white particles appear , you may be sure that the cane is ripe ...
الصفحة 49
... the liquor is boiled into a thick fyrrup , and by turning up the ladie , and observing the white grain on the bottom thereof , the boilers know when it is sufficiently boiled , and fit to be taken off ; there are many gradations to ...
... the liquor is boiled into a thick fyrrup , and by turning up the ladie , and observing the white grain on the bottom thereof , the boilers know when it is sufficiently boiled , and fit to be taken off ; there are many gradations to ...
الصفحة 50
... observe the nature of different soils , line the ground , keep a journal for his own instruction , pay strict attention to the cattle and mules , learn to dress them when maimed , to cure them when fick , and to pamper and keep them ...
... observe the nature of different soils , line the ground , keep a journal for his own instruction , pay strict attention to the cattle and mules , learn to dress them when maimed , to cure them when fick , and to pamper and keep them ...
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