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 12
... if great care was not taken to keep them a Boat some distance from the shore : people passing and repafling , are obliged to be carried on men's shoulders to to and from their boats ; several lusty yellow fellows 12 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... if great care was not taken to keep them a Boat some distance from the shore : people passing and repafling , are obliged to be carried on men's shoulders to to and from their boats ; several lusty yellow fellows 12 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 13
to and from their boats ; several lusty yellow fellows stand naked from morning ' till night for that purpose , and are well paid by the different passengers . The chief produce for exportation is wine of an excellent favour and quality ...
to and from their boats ; several lusty yellow fellows stand naked from morning ' till night for that purpose , and are well paid by the different passengers . The chief produce for exportation is wine of an excellent favour and quality ...
الصفحة 14
I was introduced to several of the English merchants there , and treated with much hospitality and politeness ; they have delicious fruit , and every luxury they can wish for . I took a ride to the English Consul's , which is a mile ...
I was introduced to several of the English merchants there , and treated with much hospitality and politeness ; they have delicious fruit , and every luxury they can wish for . I took a ride to the English Consul's , which is a mile ...
الصفحة 20
... not neglect to make me pay an account of forty pounds , previous to his departure , for Styx ; and the rascal who had my coffin and grave prepared , was for several months afterwards laughed at by the neighbouring cowlkin heroes .
... not neglect to make me pay an account of forty pounds , previous to his departure , for Styx ; and the rascal who had my coffin and grave prepared , was for several months afterwards laughed at by the neighbouring cowlkin heroes .
الصفحة 26
... is essentially necessary ; for numbers , I am confident , die through neglect . A glass of beverage , or fage - tea , may often bę a cordial to the thirsty lip of a languid wretch , who has been sweating and frying several weeks ...
... is essentially necessary ; for numbers , I am confident , die through neglect . A glass of beverage , or fage - tea , may often bę a cordial to the thirsty lip of a languid wretch , who has been sweating and frying several weeks ...
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