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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c . boarded us ; we were informed by the fat man , ( who was their linguist ) that they were customhouse officers , and that we should have waited till they boarded us , and got their fees , which was a few pounds ...
c . boarded us ; we were informed by the fat man , ( who was their linguist ) that they were customhouse officers , and that we should have waited till they boarded us , and got their fees , which was a few pounds ...
الصفحة 13
to and from their boats ; several lusty yellow fellows stand naked from morning ' till night for that purpose , and are well paid by the different passengers . The chief produce for exportation is wine of an excellent favour and quality ...
to and from their boats ; several lusty yellow fellows stand naked from morning ' till night for that purpose , and are well paid by the different passengers . The chief produce for exportation is wine of an excellent favour and quality ...
الصفحة 15
They will not only shave them with a rusty iron hoop , but lather them with pitch and tar , and duck them in the sea , till they had wished that they never were born ; fo that it will be necessary to lay in five or fix gallons of rum ...
They will not only shave them with a rusty iron hoop , but lather them with pitch and tar , and duck them in the sea , till they had wished that they never were born ; fo that it will be necessary to lay in five or fix gallons of rum ...
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... buzzing in your ears their disagreeable tunes : they have long tubes or stings , which they pierce through clothes or stockings till they get to the blood ; the consequence is , that whereever they touch , the parts fester , and are ...
... buzzing in your ears their disagreeable tunes : they have long tubes or stings , which they pierce through clothes or stockings till they get to the blood ; the consequence is , that whereever they touch , the parts fester , and are ...
الصفحة 17
... And shook his sacred wand , O'er all the isle , and in the air , And blefs'd both air and land . ” Till not a pois'nous fpiteful thing Above the earth had rang'd , And vile musquittoes lost its sting , And into midges chang'd .
... And shook his sacred wand , O'er all the isle , and in the air , And blefs'd both air and land . ” Till not a pois'nous fpiteful thing Above the earth had rang'd , And vile musquittoes lost its sting , And into midges chang'd .
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| العنوان | 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 |
| المؤلف | J. B. Moreton |
| الناشر | J. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 |
| أصلي من | المكتبة البريطانية |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 21 تشرين الأول (أكتوبر) 2013 |
| عدد الصفحات | 192 من الصفحات |
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