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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... till they boarded us , and got their fees , which was a few pounds of falt beef , or pork ; in short , as foon as they had got a piece of beef and a few glasses of port , they departed well pleased ; in like manner they paid their ...
... till they boarded us , and got their fees , which was a few pounds of falt beef , or pork ; in short , as foon as they had got a piece of beef and a few glasses of port , they departed well pleased ; in like manner they paid their ...
الصفحة 13
... till night for that purpose , and are well paid by the different passengers . The chief produce for exportation is wine of an excellent flavour and quality , instead of turning four by heat like other wines , this improves vastly in ...
... till night for that purpose , and are well paid by the different passengers . The chief produce for exportation is wine of an excellent flavour and quality , instead of turning four by heat like other wines , this improves vastly in ...
الصفحة 15
... till they had wished that they never were born ; fo that it will be necessary to lay in five or fix gallons of rum more than your fea - stock for that day , and to take about ten gallons more to distribute occasionally to the failors ...
... till they had wished that they never were born ; fo that it will be necessary to lay in five or fix gallons of rum more than your fea - stock for that day , and to take about ten gallons more to distribute occasionally to the failors ...
الصفحة 16
... till they get to the blood ; the consequence is , that where- ever they touch , the parts fester , and are troubled with such extreme itching , that if the hands were not tied , the wounded person could not avoid scratching ; and those ...
... till they get to the blood ; the consequence is , that where- ever they touch , the parts fester , and are troubled with such extreme itching , that if the hands were not tied , the wounded person could not avoid scratching ; and those ...
الصفحة 17
... Till not a pois'nous spiteful thing Above the earth had rang'd , And vile musquittoes lost its sting , And into ... till he ascends to his miridian altitude . Europeans have blood richer and sweeter than the natives , natives , and ...
... Till not a pois'nous spiteful thing Above the earth had rang'd , And vile musquittoes lost its sting , And into ... till he ascends to his miridian altitude . Europeans have blood richer and sweeter than the natives , natives , and ...
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