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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It was always a moft pleafing fatisfaction to me when in one of thofe floating habitations , in the midst of feeming danger , thinking momently she would overset , to find her steadily return to her original pofition , and force her way ...
It was always a moft pleafing fatisfaction to me when in one of thofe floating habitations , in the midst of feeming danger , thinking momently she would overset , to find her steadily return to her original pofition , and force her way ...
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 35
... like fyrens , attract and delude poor thoughtlefs failors ; in thofe dens of infamy they riot away their days and nights , drinking new rum , grog , punch , or four porter , fo that they are deprived of their fenfes , and kept in a ...
... like fyrens , attract and delude poor thoughtlefs failors ; in thofe dens of infamy they riot away their days and nights , drinking new rum , grog , punch , or four porter , fo that they are deprived of their fenfes , and kept in a ...
الصفحة 36
Every one of thofe grog fhop keepers keep a horfe and kitterine , that is , a one horfe chaife , and on fundays drive about the town and country , like ladies and gentlemen , fuperbly decorated in fineries ; the spoils of war ...
Every one of thofe grog fhop keepers keep a horfe and kitterine , that is , a one horfe chaife , and on fundays drive about the town and country , like ladies and gentlemen , fuperbly decorated in fineries ; the spoils of war ...
الصفحة 38
There are more than one hundred rivers in Jamaica , the most confiderable of which are Mina and Cobre ; when it rains heavy thofe fwell to an amazing height ; the 2d of October 1780 , when the town of Savana - la - Mar , and the whole ...
There are more than one hundred rivers in Jamaica , the most confiderable of which are Mina and Cobre ; when it rains heavy thofe fwell to an amazing height ; the 2d of October 1780 , when the town of Savana - la - Mar , and the whole ...
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