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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... ship ; sometime after , a low , fat , swarthy man , who could speak a little broken English , accompanied by two curious ill - looking fellows , yellow , tall and meagre , with black ragged coats and gold lace hats , small swords , & c ...
... ship ; sometime after , a low , fat , swarthy man , who could speak a little broken English , accompanied by two curious ill - looking fellows , yellow , tall and meagre , with black ragged coats and gold lace hats , small swords , & c ...
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... ship with coffee , fruit , and vegetables , will attract your attention ; but when you get up to Kingf- town , if you had five more senses , they would be all engaged ; the compounded stench of damaged beef , pork , herrings , butter ...
... ship with coffee , fruit , and vegetables , will attract your attention ; but when you get up to Kingf- town , if you had five more senses , they would be all engaged ; the compounded stench of damaged beef , pork , herrings , butter ...
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... ships at all times float , load and unload , along- side the wharfs ; the church , barrack , and theatre , stand on a large airy plain , on that end of the town called the Parade , leading to Spanish Town , and Liquanea ; the church is ...
... ships at all times float , load and unload , along- side the wharfs ; the church , barrack , and theatre , stand on a large airy plain , on that end of the town called the Parade , leading to Spanish Town , and Liquanea ; the church is ...
الصفحة 37
... ships ; is ten miles from Spanish Town , and fix miles from Kingston ; and as it stands on a fandy beach , surrounded by the fea , the inha- bitants are obliged to get their fresh water from Rochfort , or Kingston ; there are wherries ...
... ships ; is ten miles from Spanish Town , and fix miles from Kingston ; and as it stands on a fandy beach , surrounded by the fea , the inha- bitants are obliged to get their fresh water from Rochfort , or Kingston ; there are wherries ...
الصفحة 39
... ships now fail over the old town , and anchor amongst the ruins of the houses ; the same day a plantation was re- moved more than a mile from its former situation . In consequence of such just and infcrutable judg- ments of the creator ...
... ships now fail over the old town , and anchor amongst the ruins of the houses ; the same day a plantation was re- moved more than a mile from its former situation . In consequence of such just and infcrutable judg- ments of the creator ...
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