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 75
You will please to order insurance accordingly , Mr. Sneakıng Caution , the manager , tells me , that the cause of the sugars being so dark , and not having fo good a grain as I would with , has been owing to the canes being too ripe ...
You will please to order insurance accordingly , Mr. Sneakıng Caution , the manager , tells me , that the cause of the sugars being so dark , and not having fo good a grain as I would with , has been owing to the canes being too ripe ...
الصفحة 76
... on you for two thousand pounds sterling , at ninety days sight , in favour of Meffrs . ****** , of London , which please to accept ; I hope next crop to make you a remittance equal thereto ; and that in two or three years I shall be ...
... on you for two thousand pounds sterling , at ninety days sight , in favour of Meffrs . ****** , of London , which please to accept ; I hope next crop to make you a remittance equal thereto ; and that in two or three years I shall be ...
الصفحة 90
Tho ' * he may growl and grumble , The haughty imperious man ; I'll be content and humble , And I'll please him if I can . Bleft with the charge of an estate , And of a gang of negroes great ; I am a planter , quite compleat , A famous ...
Tho ' * he may growl and grumble , The haughty imperious man ; I'll be content and humble , And I'll please him if I can . Bleft with the charge of an estate , And of a gang of negroes great ; I am a planter , quite compleat , A famous ...
الصفحة 93
When a young man gets into a good employ , I mean where the attorney , without favour or affection , makes it an established rule to prefer the oldest book - keepers in rotation , he should ftrive to please the overseer , and remain in ...
When a young man gets into a good employ , I mean where the attorney , without favour or affection , makes it an established rule to prefer the oldest book - keepers in rotation , he should ftrive to please the overseer , and remain in ...
الصفحة 94
... for he will divise methods to attack and encounter you accordingly . Overseers are commonly jealous when they perceive that their book - keepers have friends , or merit ; so you will please to observe this , to be secret ...
... for he will divise methods to attack and encounter you accordingly . Overseers are commonly jealous when they perceive that their book - keepers have friends , or merit ; so you will please to observe this , to be secret ...
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