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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... observe , when- ever you wish to give a bottle amongst them , let it be done after some severe toil , or bad weather , having previously got the consent of the captain , or mate , least they get drunk and neglect their duty , and you ...
... observe , when- ever you wish to give a bottle amongst them , let it be done after some severe toil , or bad weather , having previously got the consent of the captain , or mate , least they get drunk and neglect their duty , and you ...
الصفحة 38
... observing part of a negro hut and other wreck , stuck faft in the branches of a large filk - cotton tree adjoining the river . May and October are commonly the rainy months , at which time the rains , ( or feafons , as they are called ) ...
... observing part of a negro hut and other wreck , stuck faft in the branches of a large filk - cotton tree adjoining the river . May and October are commonly the rainy months , at which time the rains , ( or feafons , as they are called ) ...
الصفحة 45
... observing the grain : if it appears soft and moist , like a potatoe or turnip , it is too green : but if dry , and white par- ticles appear , you may be fure that the cane is ripe ; any man , who is a planter , will know when they are ...
... observing the grain : if it appears soft and moist , like a potatoe or turnip , it is too green : but if dry , and white par- ticles appear , you may be fure that the cane is ripe ; any man , who is a planter , will know when they are ...
الصفحة 49
... observing the white grain on the bottom thereof , the boilers know when it is fufficiently boiled , and fit to be taken off ; there are many gradations to be observed in boiling of fugar ; such as fufficient boiling ; too much boiling ...
... observing the white grain on the bottom thereof , the boilers know when it is fufficiently boiled , and fit to be taken off ; there are many gradations to be observed in boiling of fugar ; such as fufficient boiling ; too much boiling ...
الصفحة 50
... observe the nature of different foils , line the ground , keep a journal for his own in- struction , 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 foils , line the ground , keep a journal for his own in- struction , 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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