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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... I shall speak from experience , for I was five years in that island ; and should what I shall offer , prove any way instrumental in promoting your happiness , I shall hereafter feel a secret satisfaction for hav . ing employed a few ...
... I shall speak from experience , for I was five years in that island ; and should what I shall offer , prove any way instrumental in promoting your happiness , I shall hereafter feel a secret satisfaction for hav . ing employed a few ...
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... sparkling particles like fire often attracted my , attention ; sometimes I have been almost induced to think I was sailing through a flaming phosphorus . I shall here submit an extract from a poem which I wrote on my first voyage .
... sparkling particles like fire often attracted my , attention ; sometimes I have been almost induced to think I was sailing through a flaming phosphorus . I shall here submit an extract from a poem which I wrote on my first voyage .
الصفحة 21
I shall here give an extract , which curiosity tempted me one day to copy from one of thefe books . Juno — for the belly - ach , to take a dose of rhubarb , after ic operates to drink lillipee and herring broth .
I shall here give an extract , which curiosity tempted me one day to copy from one of thefe books . Juno — for the belly - ach , to take a dose of rhubarb , after ic operates to drink lillipee and herring broth .
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Notwithstanding all the advice and caution I shall hereafter give you , and in spite of all your own fortitude and firmest resolutions , respecting unlawful amours , you will , no doubt ( as frail feth and blood ) have connections with ...
Notwithstanding all the advice and caution I shall hereafter give you , and in spite of all your own fortitude and firmest resolutions , respecting unlawful amours , you will , no doubt ( as frail feth and blood ) have connections with ...
الصفحة 32
I shall now proceed to give you a short difcription of the inand of Jamaica , and of the people thereof , their manners and customs . “ Curst be the lines , how smooth so e'er they flow ' , « That tend to make one honeft man my foe ...
I shall now proceed to give you a short difcription of the inand of Jamaica , and of the people thereof , their manners and customs . “ Curst be the lines , how smooth so e'er they flow ' , « That tend to make one honeft man my foe ...
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