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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... , forcing the inhabitants , like the Egyptians at the overflowing of the Nile , with their flaves and live stock , to take shelter in the mountains . mountains until the waters abate ; these heavy rains are 38 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... , forcing the inhabitants , like the Egyptians at the overflowing of the Nile , with their flaves and live stock , to take shelter in the mountains . mountains until the waters abate ; these heavy rains are 38 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 59
... stock , and amount to 65201 .; twenty negroes , at 401. each ; the manager's house and stores , ftables , shades , and penns , fuppofe to cost 2500l . all which added , is 98201 .; but fuppofing the whole to cost 12,000l . which is not ...
... stock , and amount to 65201 .; twenty negroes , at 401. each ; the manager's house and stores , ftables , shades , and penns , fuppofe to cost 2500l . all which added , is 98201 .; but fuppofing the whole to cost 12,000l . which is not ...
الصفحة 71
... stock ; he should visit the boiling - house frequently ; ftand at the tack whole hours , at times , to fee how the boilers went on , and when they went wrong di- rect them and fet them right ; he should not fupport managers without ...
... stock ; he should visit the boiling - house frequently ; ftand at the tack whole hours , at times , to fee how the boilers went on , and when they went wrong di- rect them and fet them right ; he should not fupport managers without ...
الصفحة 85
... stock and stores , until at length these matters were detected , and poor Little Confe- quence was disbanded in difgrace ! I am forry to fay that there are too many Sneaking - Cautions , and Little Confequences , in Jamaica , and all ...
... stock and stores , until at length these matters were detected , and poor Little Confe- quence was disbanded in difgrace ! I am forry to fay that there are too many Sneaking - Cautions , and Little Confequences , in Jamaica , and all ...
الصفحة 94
... stock ) with the keys of the corn , and other ftores ; he must be very particular in getting up early every morning to haften to the field to call the lift and return to feed the small stock , and to count them exactly ; he must keep an ...
... stock ) with the keys of the corn , and other ftores ; he must be very particular in getting up early every morning to haften to the field to call the lift and return to feed the small stock , and to count them exactly ; he must keep an ...
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