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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The capital is Fonchial , and contains about five hundred houses ; the natives are Portuguese , and drefs in the fame uniform of their custom - houfe officers ; their characteristic is , that they are poor , proud , fuperftitious and ...
The capital is Fonchial , and contains about five hundred houses ; the natives are Portuguese , and drefs in the fame uniform of their custom - houfe officers ; their characteristic is , that they are poor , proud , fuperftitious and ...
الصفحة 14
I was hurt very much whenever I faw any of their bald - pated hypocritical guardians , called fryars : thofe artful dogs are numerous , and frequently parade the ftreets in proceffion with an air of folemnity ; the poor deluded nuns ...
I was hurt very much whenever I faw any of their bald - pated hypocritical guardians , called fryars : thofe artful dogs are numerous , and frequently parade the ftreets in proceffion with an air of folemnity ; the poor deluded nuns ...
الصفحة 15
I love failors ; they are generous , rough , uncouth beings ; do not treat them with contempt or difrefpect ; though ragged , poor and dirty , they may be good flesh and blood ; yet do not make free with them , that is , to be ...
I love failors ; they are generous , rough , uncouth beings ; do not treat them with contempt or difrefpect ; though ragged , poor and dirty , they may be good flesh and blood ; yet do not make free with them , that is , to be ...
الصفحة 16
c . with fugar , rum and molaffes , frying on the waves , together with the intense heat , and the horrid fcene of poor Africans , male and female , bufy at their labour with hardly rags fufficient to fecret their nakedness ...
c . with fugar , rum and molaffes , frying on the waves , together with the intense heat , and the horrid fcene of poor Africans , male and female , bufy at their labour with hardly rags fufficient to fecret their nakedness ...
الصفحة 27
Of all the diseases poor mortals are fubject to , dry belly - achs are attended with the most excrutiating torture ; it is impoffible to conceive the extreme pain and agony the patient fuffers in one hour nothing but the pains of hell ...
Of all the diseases poor mortals are fubject to , dry belly - achs are attended with the most excrutiating torture ; it is impoffible to conceive the extreme pain and agony the patient fuffers in one hour nothing but the pains of hell ...
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