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 21
... he is looked upon as an Esculapeus of the times by the managers and overseers , and gets the quackery of them and their friends also , so that it never costs him any thing for board , washing and lodging , corn , or grass .
... he is looked upon as an Esculapeus of the times by the managers and overseers , and gets the quackery of them and their friends also , so that it never costs him any thing for board , washing and lodging , corn , or grass .
الصفحة 33
... are subdivided into twenty parishes , trees and shrubs of various kinds , wearing perpetual verdure , veil all the mountains and craggy rocks , save only some small spots here and there , which are cleared for guinea grass , corn ...
... are subdivided into twenty parishes , trees and shrubs of various kinds , wearing perpetual verdure , veil all the mountains and craggy rocks , save only some small spots here and there , which are cleared for guinea grass , corn ...
الصفحة 41
c . and various kinds of beans and pease , cabbage , lettuce , raddish , & c . with Indian and Guinea corn , yams , plantains , cassavi , & c . & c . D The The pastures , particularly the Guinea grass , of which IN THE WEST INDIA ...
c . and various kinds of beans and pease , cabbage , lettuce , raddish , & c . with Indian and Guinea corn , yams , plantains , cassavi , & c . & c . D The The pastures , particularly the Guinea grass , of which IN THE WEST INDIA ...
الصفحة 74
An attorney commonly supplies himself and friends with horses , cattle , sheep , poultry , sugar , rum , coffee , corn , & c . & c . from the plantacions , and accounts for them as his conscience directs . An attorney borrows the cattle ...
An attorney commonly supplies himself and friends with horses , cattle , sheep , poultry , sugar , rum , coffee , corn , & c . & c . from the plantacions , and accounts for them as his conscience directs . An attorney borrows the cattle ...
الصفحة 79
... besides , the proprietors furnish them yearly with salt - beef , Port , butter , Aour , fplic pease , barley , & c . and sometimes with porter , cheese , and hams ; the estates supply them with vegetables , corn , sugar , rum ...
... besides , the proprietors furnish them yearly with salt - beef , Port , butter , Aour , fplic pease , barley , & c . and sometimes with porter , cheese , and hams ; the estates supply them with vegetables , corn , sugar , rum ...
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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