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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Madeira Musquettos Montego Bay Mina River Maftic - wood Mahogany Mangrove Manchioneal Managers , or Overseers Mill for grinding Canes Merchants Markets Mortgagees , their schemes Mongrels ib . ib . 45-9 46 64 , 97 64 72 Mulatttoes ...
Madeira Musquettos Montego Bay Mina River Maftic - wood Mahogany Mangrove Manchioneal Managers , or Overseers Mill for grinding Canes Merchants Markets Mortgagees , their schemes Mongrels ib . ib . 45-9 46 64 , 97 64 72 Mulatttoes ...
الصفحة 6
40 60 Nightingales Natives Negroes 135 41 Oranges Overseers Officers of the Army 79 , 91 178 16 , 37 57 Port - Royal Pens , or Farms Parrots , Parroquets , & c . Pork , excellent quality Plantations Pens for Cattle 40 41 42 43 21 Quacks ...
40 60 Nightingales Natives Negroes 135 41 Oranges Overseers Officers of the Army 79 , 91 178 16 , 37 57 Port - Royal Pens , or Farms Parrots , Parroquets , & c . Pork , excellent quality Plantations Pens for Cattle 40 41 42 43 21 Quacks ...
الصفحة 21
When a doctor ( as he is called ) gets the quackery of two or three plantations , 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 ...
When a doctor ( as he is called ) gets the quackery of two or three plantations , 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 ...
الصفحة 49
... without exposing his conftitution to the menial , coilsome , and painful drudgeries of an overseer's life , for ... a business he knows nothing about ; he may may think , and say , “ My overseers and IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS , 49.
... without exposing his conftitution to the menial , coilsome , and painful drudgeries of an overseer's life , for ... a business he knows nothing about ; he may may think , and say , “ My overseers and IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS , 49.
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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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