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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... obliged us to return to the fhip ; fometime after , a low , fat , fwarthy man , who could fpeak a little broken English , accompanied by two curious ill - looking fellows , yellow , tall and meagre , with black ragged coats and gold ...
... obliged us to return to the fhip ; fometime after , a low , fat , fwarthy man , who could fpeak a little broken English , accompanied by two curious ill - looking fellows , yellow , tall and meagre , with black ragged coats and gold ...
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... obliged to fhun the weather , do not keep loitering about the hall or piazza , for it may be difpleafing to your employer ; therefore retire to your room and read fome good book . When you chance to get wet , which you often will , be ...
... obliged to fhun the weather , do not keep loitering about the hall or piazza , for it may be difpleafing to your employer ; therefore retire to your room and read fome good book . When you chance to get wet , which you often will , be ...
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... obliged to get their fresh water from Rochfort , or Kingston ; there are wherries hourly paffing and repaffing , between thefe places ; the usual fare for a boat , if hired by one perfon , is a dollar , but if there are many paffengers ...
... obliged to get their fresh water from Rochfort , or Kingston ; there are wherries hourly paffing and repaffing , between thefe places ; the usual fare for a boat , if hired by one perfon , is a dollar , but if there are many paffengers ...
الصفحة 44
... obliged , for want of fufficient frength of their own , to hire jobbinggangs , is fix or feven pounds . If the land is newly broke up , or a good deep brick mould foil , it will not require manure ; but if otherwise , it must be ...
... obliged , for want of fufficient frength of their own , to hire jobbinggangs , is fix or feven pounds . If the land is newly broke up , or a good deep brick mould foil , it will not require manure ; but if otherwise , it must be ...
الصفحة 45
... obliged to be taken off , and this is called trashing . When the canes are ripe , it is known by the richness of their juice , or by cutting fome of them with a fharp knife , and obferving the grain : if it appears foft and moift , like ...
... obliged to be taken off , and this is called trashing . When the canes are ripe , it is known by the richness of their juice , or by cutting fome of them with a fharp knife , and obferving the grain : if it appears foft and moift , like ...
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