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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... 18 174 Howard's Tavern Hurricanes 35 38 Jamaica Jews Justices of the Peace Judge , Chief 33 , 42 65 IOI 102 Kingston 34 39 Lightning , dreadful Locust - tree Lignum - vitæ - tree Little - Confequence , the Cowskin - hero 40 ib .
... 18 174 Howard's Tavern Hurricanes 35 38 Jamaica Jews Justices of the Peace Judge , Chief 33 , 42 65 IOI 102 Kingston 34 39 Lightning , dreadful Locust - tree Lignum - vitæ - tree Little - Confequence , the Cowskin - hero 40 ib .
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... not neglect to make me pay an account of forty pounds , previous to his departure , for Styx ; and the rascal who had my coffin and grave prepared , was for several months afterwards laughed at by the neighbouring cowskin heroes .
... not neglect to make me pay an account of forty pounds , previous to his departure , for Styx ; and the rascal who had my coffin and grave prepared , was for several months afterwards laughed at by the neighbouring cowskin heroes .
الصفحة 50
may think , and say , “ My overseers and drivers will instruct me -- they will direct me , and I will be the cowskin hero ; ” in this case he will find himself miserably mistaken ; for they will secretly laugh at him , and impofe upon ...
may think , and say , “ My overseers and drivers will instruct me -- they will direct me , and I will be the cowskin hero ; ” in this case he will find himself miserably mistaken ; for they will secretly laugh at him , and impofe upon ...
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... a menial part of plantership ; and when they become cowskin heroes , or managers , are are totally ignorant of instructing their overseers or negroes in IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS , 35 and skim off the trash; a good handy pump ...
... a menial part of plantership ; and when they become cowskin heroes , or managers , are are totally ignorant of instructing their overseers or negroes in IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS , 35 and skim off the trash; a good handy pump ...
الصفحة 64
... or to some Mac or other ; upon the delivery of which , he was taken notice of , and immediately put into some business , and in some time after , if he lived , was either a military wood cock , merchant , or cowskin hero !
... or to some Mac or other ; upon the delivery of which , he was taken notice of , and immediately put into some business , and in some time after , if he lived , was either a military wood cock , merchant , or cowskin hero !
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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