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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الصفحة 29
... and so introduce an avenue for rhumatic pains ( what diffipated rakes call the gout ) to follow several years aftar , and attend him to his last hours : nor should he , if possible , entertain even one amorous thought the whole time ...
... and so introduce an avenue for rhumatic pains ( what diffipated rakes call the gout ) to follow several years aftar , and attend him to his last hours : nor should he , if possible , entertain even one amorous thought the whole time ...
الصفحة 30
... a table spoonful every ten minutes by a watch until it operates , then to work it off with large and repeated draughts of luke - warm water , until you puke seven or eight times ; the whole being over , and your ftomach at ease ...
... a table spoonful every ten minutes by a watch until it operates , then to work it off with large and repeated draughts of luke - warm water , until you puke seven or eight times ; the whole being over , and your ftomach at ease ...
الصفحة 39
... and leave not only towns and plantations , but whole parishes waste , and hurry unprepared into eternity hundreds of our unhappy brethren of all colours .--- Lord have mercy on their fouls ! These awful and tremendous dispensations ...
... and leave not only towns and plantations , but whole parishes waste , and hurry unprepared into eternity hundreds of our unhappy brethren of all colours .--- Lord have mercy on their fouls ! These awful and tremendous dispensations ...
الصفحة 43
... fall back three feet and a half , and line and mark another row as they did the first , still falling back three feet and a half each time till they have lined the whole piece ( two smart handy boys or girls are appointed for liners ...
... fall back three feet and a half , and line and mark another row as they did the first , still falling back three feet and a half each time till they have lined the whole piece ( two smart handy boys or girls are appointed for liners ...
الصفحة 50
... and pack whole hours daily and nightly , and take his monthly spell in the distill - house ; but the generality of managers think they have got a proper knowledge knowledge of all these , without ever handling a line 50 MANNERS AND ...
... and pack whole hours daily and nightly , and take his monthly spell in the distill - house ; but the generality of managers think they have got a proper knowledge knowledge of all these , without ever handling a line 50 MANNERS AND ...
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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