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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... has any spirit of emulation , enjoys a pleasure in seeing cane holes properly lined and dug . An acre contains about 3555 holes , three D 2 feet feet and a half fquare , and if the ground IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 43.
... has any spirit of emulation , enjoys a pleasure in seeing cane holes properly lined and dug . An acre contains about 3555 holes , three D 2 feet feet and a half fquare , and if the ground IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 43.
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... see many a fine house built , I might juft as well attempt , with a few negroe mafons or carpenters , to build an elegant structure , ornamented and decorated in a mechanical manner ; or , though I learned the theory of navigation , I ...
... see many a fine house built , I might juft as well attempt , with a few negroe mafons or carpenters , to build an elegant structure , ornamented and decorated in a mechanical manner ; or , though I learned the theory of navigation , I ...
الصفحة 87
... Seeing his plantation in fuch a ruined condition , he with much compofure of mind very tamely addreffed the overfeer , whofe name was Fungee , thus : " Mr. Fungee , I find you are very induftri- ous ; you certainly have uncommon ...
... Seeing his plantation in fuch a ruined condition , he with much compofure of mind very tamely addreffed the overfeer , whofe name was Fungee , thus : " Mr. Fungee , I find you are very induftri- ous ; you certainly have uncommon ...
الصفحة 95
... see the oldest set first . He muft every morning enter in his book the number of each kind that are with egg , least the stock - house woman deceives him ; and though you will think all this a very menial part of duty , which I cer ...
... see the oldest set first . He muft every morning enter in his book the number of each kind that are with egg , least the stock - house woman deceives him ; and though you will think all this a very menial part of duty , which I cer ...
الصفحة 150
... see smarter beaumen than me ; Tho ' I often compell'd her to own How falfe and how fickle they be . My fungee , alas ! is unboil'd , My hut is all cover'd with dirt ; I've no one to nurfe my dear child , Nor to wash the falt fweat from ...
... see smarter beaumen than me ; Tho ' I often compell'd her to own How falfe and how fickle they be . My fungee , alas ! is unboil'd , My hut is all cover'd with dirt ; I've no one to nurfe my dear child , Nor to wash the falt fweat from ...
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