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 EditionJ. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 - 192 من الصفحات |
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... business in the country , when you fee an impend- ing shower , hasten to your home , or to some hut , or place of shelter , till it is over ; and at working hours , when thus obliged to shun the weather , do not keep loitering about the ...
... business in the country , when you fee an impend- ing shower , hasten to your home , or to some hut , or place of shelter , till it is over ; and at working hours , when thus obliged to shun the weather , do not keep loitering about the ...
الصفحة 49
... : He may attempt it , but how infignificant and auk- ward must a man appear , who attempts or un- dertakes a business he knows nothing about ; he may may think , and say , " My overseers and IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 49.
... : He may attempt it , but how infignificant and auk- ward must a man appear , who attempts or un- dertakes a business he knows nothing about ; he may may think , and say , " My overseers and IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 49.
الصفحة 50
... business like clock - work , he will take advantages ; and knowing his own abilities and value , thinks himself entitled to rest and refreshment ; and very justly he is , to as much or more than the ignorant man who is obligated to him ...
... business like clock - work , he will take advantages ; and knowing his own abilities and value , thinks himself entitled to rest and refreshment ; and very justly he is , to as much or more than the ignorant man who is obligated to him ...
الصفحة 52
... business , and yet it is very amazing how cheer- fully the negroes begin and go through with it ; how , instead of getting weak and meagre , like the cattle and mules , they like rats fatten upon the canes , and flops of liquor , and ...
... business , and yet it is very amazing how cheer- fully the negroes begin and go through with it ; how , instead of getting weak and meagre , like the cattle and mules , they like rats fatten upon the canes , and flops of liquor , and ...
الصفحة 64
... business , and in some time after , if he lived , was either a military wood cock , merchant , or cowskin hero ! The markets are very precarious ; I have known salt provisions to fell at one hundred and fifty per cent . profit one week ...
... business , and in some time after , if he lived , was either a military wood cock , merchant , or cowskin hero ! The markets are very precarious ; I have known salt provisions to fell at one hundred and fifty per cent . profit one week ...
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