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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... stock for that day , and to take about ten gallons more to distribute occasionally to the failors ; it is the only way to gain their affections ; but obferve , when- ever you wish to give a bottle amongst them , let it be done after ...
... stock for that day , and to take about ten gallons more to distribute occasionally to the failors ; it is the only way to gain their affections ; but obferve , when- ever you wish to give a bottle amongst them , let it be done after ...
الصفحة 38
... , forcing the inhabitants , like the Egyptians at the overflowing of the Nile , with their flaves and live stock , to take shelter in the 1 : mountains until the waters abate ; these heavy rains are. mountains , feet 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 1 : mountains until the waters abate ; these heavy rains are. mountains , feet 38 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 57
... stock , & c . will cost 30 or 40,0001 . ) ; which fum of 26,0001 . at 8 per cent . interest is 20801 . which , added to the annual expence , is 28801 . Now , supposing the estate to be well managed , and to make upon an average one ...
... stock , & c . will cost 30 or 40,0001 . ) ; which fum of 26,0001 . at 8 per cent . interest is 20801 . which , added to the annual expence , is 28801 . Now , supposing the estate to be well managed , and to make upon an average one ...
الصفحة 59
... stock , and amount to 65201 .; twenty negroes , at 40l . each ; the manager's house and stores , stables , shades , and penns , suppose to cost 25001l . all which added , is 98201 .; but supposing the whole to cost 12,000l . which is ...
... stock , and amount to 65201 .; twenty negroes , at 40l . each ; the manager's house and stores , stables , shades , and penns , suppose to cost 25001l . all which added , is 98201 .; but supposing the whole to cost 12,000l . which is ...
الصفحة 62
... stock , are only to be met with on Sundays . I once had occafion to wait on an honorable gen- tleman of this kind in St. James ' parish ; the gate being locked , I knocked several times ; but how great was my surprize when a musket ball ...
... stock , are only to be met with on Sundays . I once had occafion to wait on an honorable gen- tleman of this kind in St. James ' parish ; the gate being locked , I knocked several times ; but how great was my surprize when a musket ball ...
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