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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S to A Jamaica , and I presume an entire ftranger to the nature of that climate and the people thereof , 1 think it a duty incumbent on me to give you some instructions and advice respecting both ; I shall speak from experience , for I ...
S to A Jamaica , and I presume an entire ftranger to the nature of that climate and the people thereof , 1 think it a duty incumbent on me to give you some instructions and advice respecting both ; I shall speak from experience , for I ...
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The curling waves , now glittering with white , Again , the colour of the fable night ; On one huge surge a purple hue I've seen , And on another an undulating green ; some of a yellow , some a crimson dye , And some the colour of the ...
The curling waves , now glittering with white , Again , the colour of the fable night ; On one huge surge a purple hue I've seen , And on another an undulating green ; some of a yellow , some a crimson dye , And some the colour of the ...
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... the -natives are Portuguese , and dress in the fame uniform of their custom - house officers ; their characteristic is , that they are poor , proud , superftitious and treacherous ; the finest of their women , some hundreds of them ...
... the -natives are Portuguese , and dress in the fame uniform of their custom - house officers ; their characteristic is , that they are poor , proud , superftitious and treacherous ; the finest of their women , some hundreds of them ...
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... let it be done after some severe toil , or bad weather , having previously got the consent of the captain , or mate , least they get drunk and neglect their duty , and you should be blamed . I love failors ; they are generous ...
... let it be done after some severe toil , or bad weather , having previously got the consent of the captain , or mate , least they get drunk and neglect their duty , and you should be blamed . I love failors ; they are generous ...
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When the messenger returned , which was some hours after , my brother book - keeper , who had some compassion for me , brought a bottle of the wine into my room , and made me take a glass of it , and in a little time after gave me more ...
When the messenger returned , which was some hours after , my brother book - keeper , who had some compassion for me , brought a bottle of the wine into my room , and made me take a glass of it , and in a little time after gave me more ...
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