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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... stranger to the nature of that climate and the people thereof , I think it a duty incumbent on me to give you some instructions and advice respecting both ; I shall speak from experience , for I was five years in that island ; and ...
... stranger to the nature of that climate and the people thereof , I think it a duty incumbent on me to give you some instructions and advice respecting both ; I shall speak from experience , for I was five years in that island ; and ...
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... stranger or drunken man , of a dark night , unless he walks in the middle of the street , is liable to get his bones broke ; the streets are sandy , and when it blows strong the dust rarifies so abundantly , that a person paffing cannot ...
... stranger or drunken man , of a dark night , unless he walks in the middle of the street , is liable to get his bones broke ; the streets are sandy , and when it blows strong the dust rarifies so abundantly , that a person paffing cannot ...
الصفحة 61
... strangers , for refreshment for them- selves , servants , and horses , and that too without any ceremony or formality , and behave friendly and polite to each other . The governor's revenues , including his falary of 2000l . which he ...
... strangers , for refreshment for them- selves , servants , and horses , and that too without any ceremony or formality , and behave friendly and polite to each other . The governor's revenues , including his falary of 2000l . which he ...
الصفحة 62
... stranger or other person if not well known will get admittance ; the produce is all shipped on Sundays ; the slaves , and other stock , are only to be met with on Sundays . I once had occafion to wait on an honorable gen- tleman of this ...
... stranger or other person if not well known will get admittance ; the produce is all shipped on Sundays ; the slaves , and other stock , are only to be met with on Sundays . I once had occafion to wait on an honorable gen- tleman of this ...
الصفحة 84
... of Indian corn to pamper his horfes , and feed his flaves which were hired on the estate ; he always had excellent dinners and good accom- modations modations for strangers , so that he was fre- quently 84 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... of Indian corn to pamper his horfes , and feed his flaves which were hired on the estate ; he always had excellent dinners and good accom- modations modations for strangers , so that he was fre- quently 84 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
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