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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... for I was five years in that island ; and should what I fall offer , prove any way inftrumental in promoting your happiness , I shall hereafter feel a secret fatisfaction for having employed a few vacant hours so well .
... for I was five years in that island ; and should what I fall offer , prove any way inftrumental in promoting your happiness , I shall hereafter feel a secret fatisfaction for having employed a few vacant hours so well .
الصفحة 13
The capital is Fonchial , and contains about five hundred houses ; the -natives are Portuguese , and dress in the fame uniform of their custom - house officers ; their characteristic is , that they are poor , proud , superftitious and ...
The capital is Fonchial , and contains about five hundred houses ; the -natives are Portuguese , and dress in the fame uniform of their custom - house officers ; their characteristic is , that they are poor , proud , superftitious and ...
الصفحة 15
They will not only shave them with a rusty iron hoop , but lather them with pitch and tar , and duck them in the sea , till they had wished that they never were born ; fo that it will be necessary to lay in five or fix gallons of rum ...
They will not only shave them with a rusty iron hoop , but lather them with pitch and tar , and duck them in the sea , till they had wished that they never were born ; fo that it will be necessary to lay in five or fix gallons of rum ...
الصفحة 16
On your arrival at Port - Royal , the negroes in small canoes , or bom - boats , coming along side the ship with coffee , fruit , and vegetables , will attract your attention ; but when you get up to Kingsyou had five more senses , they ...
On your arrival at Port - Royal , the negroes in small canoes , or bom - boats , coming along side the ship with coffee , fruit , and vegetables , will attract your attention ; but when you get up to Kingsyou had five more senses , they ...
الصفحة 21
The common charge for each negroe , whether they are sick or well , is five shillings yearly , besides the benefit of venereals , for which he makes a separate charge , so that he commonly gets about one hundred , or one hundred and ...
The common charge for each negroe , whether they are sick or well , is five shillings yearly , besides the benefit of venereals , for which he makes a separate charge , so that he commonly gets about one hundred , or one hundred and ...
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| العنوان | 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 |
| المؤلف | J. B. Moreton |
| الناشر | J. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 |
| أصلي من | المكتبة البريطانية |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 21 تشرين الأول (أكتوبر) 2013 |
| عدد الصفحات | 192 من الصفحات |
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