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 , haften to your home , or to fome 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 , haften to your home , or to fome 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 50
... business is of courfe neglected , and the proprietor in England , through the ignorance of his attorney , or his good nature to fupport one of his poor friends , is materially injured . He that would wish to be a planter , fhould attend ...
... business is of courfe neglected , and the proprietor in England , through the ignorance of his attorney , or his good nature to fupport one of his poor friends , is materially injured . He that would wish to be a planter , fhould attend ...
الصفحة 64
... business , and in fome time after , if he lived , was either a military wood cock , merchant , or cowfkin hero ! The markets are very precarious ; I have known falt provifions to fell at one hundred and fifty per cent . profit one week ...
... business , and in fome time after , if he lived , was either a military wood cock , merchant , or cowfkin hero ! The markets are very precarious ; I have known falt provifions to fell at one hundred and fifty per cent . profit one week ...
الصفحة 80
... business on a plantation is no way intri- cate ; there are thousands of circumftances which appearances only can teach ; an overseer should be active and induftrious , of a steady , fober dif- pofition , humane and charitable , fhrewd ...
... business on a plantation is no way intri- cate ; there are thousands of circumftances which appearances only can teach ; an overseer should be active and induftrious , of a steady , fober dif- pofition , humane and charitable , fhrewd ...
الصفحة 92
... business , as I obferved to you before ; indeed , if he has no letter nor friend , his own modeft behaviour and appear- ance will recommend him in the country , for overfeers are glad to get green - horns , because they can impofe ...
... business , as I obferved to you before ; indeed , if he has no letter nor friend , his own modeft behaviour and appear- ance will recommend him in the country , for overfeers are glad to get green - horns , because they can impofe ...
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