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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... lay in five or fix gallons of rum more than your fea - ftock for that day , and to take about ten gallons more to diftribute occafionally to the failors ; it is the only way to gain their affections ; but obferve , whenever you wish ...
... lay in five or fix gallons of rum more than your fea - ftock for that day , and to take about ten gallons more to diftribute occafionally to the failors ; it is the only way to gain their affections ; but obferve , whenever you wish ...
الصفحة 50
... fhould attend the field from morning until night , obferve the nature of different foils , line the ground , keep a journal for his own inftruction , pay strict attention to the cattle and mules , learn to drefs them when maimed ...
... fhould attend the field from morning until night , obferve the nature of different foils , line the ground , keep a journal for his own inftruction , pay strict attention to the cattle and mules , learn to drefs them when maimed ...
الصفحة 54
An accident may happen with the most careful distiller through hurry , or neglect of negroes ; but when a miftake or error is once committed , a person should be cautious to avoid a repetition of the like again ; therefore obferve ...
An accident may happen with the most careful distiller through hurry , or neglect of negroes ; but when a miftake or error is once committed , a person should be cautious to avoid a repetition of the like again ; therefore obferve ...
الصفحة 56
... the dregs of porter , will improve rum ; alfo tea , and temper lime , about two quarts of the latter to each puncheon ; burnt Mufcovado fugar will colour it . Here } 8 Here let me obferve the vast expence which 56 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... the dregs of porter , will improve rum ; alfo tea , and temper lime , about two quarts of the latter to each puncheon ; burnt Mufcovado fugar will colour it . Here } 8 Here let me obferve the vast expence which 56 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 57
8 Here let me obferve the vast expence which attends establishing a fugar plantation , fuppofing keeping only one hundred acres conftantly under canes . The mill , boiling , and curing - houses , and diftill - houfe , with all the ...
8 Here let me obferve the vast expence which attends establishing a fugar plantation , fuppofing keeping only one hundred acres conftantly under canes . The mill , boiling , and curing - houses , and diftill - houfe , with all the ...
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