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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... or pork ; in Short , as soon as they had got a piece of beef and a few glasses of port , they departed well pleased ; in like manner they paid their devoirs to each ship ( the fleet consisted of one hundred and eighty fail ) .
... or pork ; in Short , as soon as they had got a piece of beef and a few glasses of port , they departed well pleased ; in like manner they paid their devoirs to each ship ( the fleet consisted of one hundred and eighty fail ) .
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The capital is Fonchial , and contains about five hundred houses ; the -natives are Portuguese , and dress in the fame ... superftitious and treacherous ; the finest of their women , some hundreds of them , are cooped up in convents ...
The capital is Fonchial , and contains about five hundred houses ; the -natives are Portuguese , and dress in the fame ... superftitious and treacherous ; the finest of their women , some hundreds of them , are cooped up in convents ...
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“ To count them all would fail the poet's lungs , “ ' It alks an hundred mouths , an hundred tongues . " AIR . My Friend and Pitcher . How happy is the doctor's fate In that sweet clime : he once gets footing , Ador'd by all on each ...
“ To count them all would fail the poet's lungs , “ ' It alks an hundred mouths , an hundred tongues . " AIR . My Friend and Pitcher . How happy is the doctor's fate In that sweet clime : he once gets footing , Ador'd by all on each ...
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... so that he commonly gets about one hundred , or one hundred and fifty pounds for the attendance of the negroes and and whites on each plantation yearly , and all tha for about thirty shillings worth of medicine When a quack has many ...
... so that he commonly gets about one hundred , or one hundred and fifty pounds for the attendance of the negroes and and whites on each plantation yearly , and all tha for about thirty shillings worth of medicine When a quack has many ...
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... it is about one hundred and fifty miles long , and fixty broad , containing about ' six thousand square miles , and is about four thousand five hundred miles from England , and was discovered in the year 1493 , by Christopher ...
... it is about one hundred and fifty miles long , and fixty broad , containing about ' six thousand square miles , and is about four thousand five hundred miles from England , and was discovered in the year 1493 , by Christopher ...
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