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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... that if the hands were not tied , the wounded person could not avoid scratching ; and those who don't take care of their nails , soon have their legs inflamed with disagreeable fores ; I have heard of many young men's legs ?
... that if the hands were not tied , the wounded person could not avoid scratching ; and those who don't take care of their nails , soon have their legs inflamed with disagreeable fores ; I have heard of many young men's legs ?
الصفحة 26
... when a person is confined to his bed , some careful , discreet , black woman , should be appointed to actend him all day and night . Therefore let me request , that when you find yourself indisposed as I have mentioned , you will ...
... when a person is confined to his bed , some careful , discreet , black woman , should be appointed to actend him all day and night . Therefore let me request , that when you find yourself indisposed as I have mentioned , you will ...
الصفحة 35
... get his bones broke ; the streets are sandy , and when ic blows strong the dust rarifies so abundantly , chac a person palling cannot see the houses nor palsengers , nor can he , but with much difficulty , preserve his eye - light .
... get his bones broke ; the streets are sandy , and when ic blows strong the dust rarifies so abundantly , chac a person palling cannot see the houses nor palsengers , nor can he , but with much difficulty , preserve his eye - light .
الصفحة 37
... by one person , is a dollar , but if there are many passengers only two bitts for each . Montego Bay , next to Kingston for trade , is about one hundred and twenty five miles diftant from Kingston , and contains about fix hundred ...
... by one person , is a dollar , but if there are many passengers only two bitts for each . Montego Bay , next to Kingston for trade , is about one hundred and twenty five miles diftant from Kingston , and contains about fix hundred ...
الصفحة 40
... are rank poison ; so that if even the rain which remained any time on the leaves , falls on a person's íkin , the parts blister immediately , and if a drop chance to get into the eye , it destroys the fight for ever .
... are rank poison ; so that if even the rain which remained any time on the leaves , falls on a person's íkin , the parts blister immediately , and if a drop chance to get into the eye , it destroys the fight for ever .
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