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 EditionJ. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 - 192 من الصفحات |
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J. B. Moreton. ( MANNERS MANNERS AND CUSTOMS IN THE WEST INDIA INDIA ISLANDS . MY DEAR FRIEND ! Α SI understand you intend to go fhortly to Jamaica , and I prefume an entire stranger to the nature of that climate and the people thereof ...
J. B. Moreton. ( MANNERS MANNERS AND CUSTOMS IN THE WEST INDIA INDIA ISLANDS . MY DEAR FRIEND ! Α SI understand you intend to go fhortly to Jamaica , and I prefume an entire stranger to the nature of that climate and the people thereof ...
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... a crimson dye , And fome the colour of the azure sky ; Those beauteous fcenes did often entertain My penfive thoughts , and charmed ev'ry vein . B 2 As As you probably , may call at Madiera , I IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . II.
... a crimson dye , And fome the colour of the azure sky ; Those beauteous fcenes did often entertain My penfive thoughts , and charmed ev'ry vein . B 2 As As you probably , may call at Madiera , I IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . II.
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... Island by an extract from my journal . As foon as we came to anchor oppofite Madeira , a fmall African ifland , fituated in about 32o , N. latitude and 16o , 50 ′ W. longitude , we got into the small boat , thinking to go on fhore ...
... Island by an extract from my journal . As foon as we came to anchor oppofite Madeira , a fmall African ifland , fituated in about 32o , N. latitude and 16o , 50 ′ W. longitude , we got into the small boat , thinking to go on fhore ...
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... , but fays , " a fingle life is better " . If so , they are fadly deceived , for the fenfe of that cafe is plain from many other parts of the · B 3 gofpel gofpel , and is to the following purport : " IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 13.
... , but fays , " a fingle life is better " . If so , they are fadly deceived , for the fenfe of that cafe is plain from many other parts of the · B 3 gofpel gofpel , and is to the following purport : " IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 13.
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... 'clock , increafing as the fun gathers ftrength , till he afcends to his miridian altitude . Europeans have blood richer and fweeter than the natives , natives , and till it becomes deluted or weakened by IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 17.
... 'clock , increafing as the fun gathers ftrength , till he afcends to his miridian altitude . Europeans have blood richer and fweeter than the natives , natives , and till it becomes deluted or weakened by IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 17.
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