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 6
Pork , excellent quality Plantations Pens for Cattle 40 41 42 43 21 Quacks Quadroon Natives 123 23 , 38 Rains Rum 38 ib , Rivers Rattoon- Canes 45 9 ° 15 , 35 Sea - sickness , and sea - voyage Sailors Spanish - Town , or St. Jago ...
Pork , excellent quality Plantations Pens for Cattle 40 41 42 43 21 Quacks Quadroon Natives 123 23 , 38 Rains Rum 38 ib , Rivers Rattoon- Canes 45 9 ° 15 , 35 Sea - sickness , and sea - voyage Sailors Spanish - Town , or St. Jago ...
الصفحة 38
... and fifty three thousand puncheons of ruin ; there are about two thousand and twenty pens or farms , and other settlements , two hundred fifty nine thousand saves , eighty thousand one hundred cattle , and twenty five thousand white ...
... and fifty three thousand puncheons of ruin ; there are about two thousand and twenty pens or farms , and other settlements , two hundred fifty nine thousand saves , eighty thousand one hundred cattle , and twenty five thousand white ...
الصفحة 41
The woods afford shelter for vast numbers of wild cattle and swine , and some deer : I have sometimes shot a fat cattle of this kind , and frequently wild hogs ; the latter are excellent when barbacued maroon fashion .
The woods afford shelter for vast numbers of wild cattle and swine , and some deer : I have sometimes shot a fat cattle of this kind , and frequently wild hogs ; the latter are excellent when barbacued maroon fashion .
الصفحة 42
The pastures , particularly the Guinea grass , of which I shall speak more fully hereafter , are excellent for fattening horses and cattle . Travellers have been as well pleased with the beef , mutton , pork , and poultry of Jamaica ...
The pastures , particularly the Guinea grass , of which I shall speak more fully hereafter , are excellent for fattening horses and cattle . Travellers have been as well pleased with the beef , mutton , pork , and poultry of Jamaica ...
الصفحة 44
The cattle and mules are shifted nightly from penn to penn , till their dung and urine heat and rot the trash ; but the uncommon heat of those penns is often injurious to the feet and limbs of the cattle ...
The cattle and mules are shifted nightly from penn to penn , till their dung and urine heat and rot the trash ; but the uncommon heat of those penns is often injurious to the feet and limbs of the cattle ...
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almoſt alſo appear attend attorney beſt better book-keepers buſineſs called canes carry cattle cent commonly corn cowſkin Creole cure drink eight eſtate eyes favour feet field firſt five follows fond four frequently friends gentlemen give ground hands heart hero himſelf houſe human hundred ignorant iſland Jamaica juſtice keep kind known ladies leaſt liquor live manager manner maſter means merchants mind miſs Mongrel morning moſt muſt nature Naves negroes never night obliged obſerve once overſeers pain particularly perſon plantation planting pleaſe poor reſpect ſame ſay ſee ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall ſome ſoon ſtock ſuch ſugar taken themſelves theſe thing thoſe thouſand till town turn uſe waſhed Weſt Indies whole wine wiſh women woods young yourſelf