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 13
... whenever I faw any of them peeping through their horrid iron grates - I suppose it is a paffage in St. Paul that induces them to live this reclufe life , where he recommends a married life , but fays , " a fingle life is better " .
... whenever I faw any of them peeping through their horrid iron grates - I suppose it is a paffage in St. Paul that induces them to live this reclufe life , where he recommends a married life , but fays , " a fingle life is better " .
الصفحة 14
gofpel , and is to the following purport : " That fingle chriftians during perfecution can pafs through adverse fortune better than those who have mates and children to provide for ; " in many parts of fcripture a fingle life is ...
gofpel , and is to the following purport : " That fingle chriftians during perfecution can pafs through adverse fortune better than those who have mates and children to provide for ; " in many parts of fcripture a fingle life is ...
الصفحة 26
It is always a fure fign of getting the better of a fever , when the lips blifter and break out .. An An ague proceeds from obftructed perspirations , or whatever retards 26 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
It is always a fure fign of getting the better of a fever , when the lips blifter and break out .. An An ague proceeds from obftructed perspirations , or whatever retards 26 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 45
After the first crop is taken off there fprings up a fecond one , called rattoons , which often is better than the firft . If the eftate is a poor foil , there are seldom more than two crops of rattoons taken off till the ground is ...
After the first crop is taken off there fprings up a fecond one , called rattoons , which often is better than the firft . If the eftate is a poor foil , there are seldom more than two crops of rattoons taken off till the ground is ...
الصفحة 46
... which is commonly referved for the use of the fick negroes , or converted into rum ; I faw many fine crops ruined through fuch neglect , and yet the managers were fupported better than many induftrious experienced planters .
... which is commonly referved for the use of the fick negroes , or converted into rum ; I faw many fine crops ruined through fuch neglect , and yet the managers were fupported better than many induftrious experienced planters .
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