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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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 14
I was hurt very much whenever I saw any of their bald - pated hypocritical guardians , called fryars : those artful dogs are numerous , and frequently parade the streets in procession with an air of solemnity ; the poor deluded nuns ...
I was hurt very much whenever I saw any of their bald - pated hypocritical guardians , called fryars : those artful dogs are numerous , and frequently parade the streets in procession with an air of solemnity ; the poor deluded nuns ...
الصفحة 15
I love failors ; they are generous , rough , uncouth beings ; do not treat them with contempt or disrespect ; though ragged , poor and dirty , they may be good fesh and blood ; yet do not make free with them , that is , to be chatcering ...
I love failors ; they are generous , rough , uncouth beings ; do not treat them with contempt or disrespect ; though ragged , poor and dirty , they may be good fesh and blood ; yet do not make free with them , that is , to be chatcering ...
الصفحة 16
c . with sugar , rum and molasses , frying on the waves , together with the intense heat , and the horrid scene poor Africans , male and female , busy at their labour with hardly rags sufficient to secret their nakedness , will affect ...
c . with sugar , rum and molasses , frying on the waves , together with the intense heat , and the horrid scene poor Africans , male and female , busy at their labour with hardly rags sufficient to secret their nakedness , will affect ...
الصفحة 27
Of all the diseases poor mortals are subje & t tog dry belly - achs are attended with the most excrutiating torture ; it is impossible to conceive the extreme pain and agony the patient suffers in one hour : nothing but the pains of ...
Of all the diseases poor mortals are subje & t tog dry belly - achs are attended with the most excrutiating torture ; it is impossible to conceive the extreme pain and agony the patient suffers in one hour : nothing but the pains of ...
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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