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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... strong liquors given in generous portions to the failors ; and when they meet with griping low- life passengers , woe betide them ! They will not only shave them with a rusty iron hoop , but lather them with pitch and tar , and duck ...
... strong liquors given in generous portions to the failors ; and when they meet with griping low- life passengers , woe betide them ! They will not only shave them with a rusty iron hoop , but lather them with pitch and tar , and duck ...
الصفحة 25
... strong and fast , like the ticking of a watch , when you feel a beating or reeling in your head ; a weakness in your eyes ; pains in your neck , back , shoulders , or knees ; when your perspiration smells strong and dif- agreeable to ...
... strong and fast , like the ticking of a watch , when you feel a beating or reeling in your head ; a weakness in your eyes ; pains in your neck , back , shoulders , or knees ; when your perspiration smells strong and dif- agreeable to ...
الصفحة 35
... strong the dust rarifies so abundantly , that a person paffing cannot see the houses nor paf- sengers , nor can he , but with much difficulty , pre- serve his eye - fight . There are some good taverns , coffee - houses , and lodging ...
... strong the dust rarifies so abundantly , that a person paffing cannot see the houses nor paf- sengers , nor can he , but with much difficulty , pre- serve his eye - fight . There are some good taverns , coffee - houses , and lodging ...
الصفحة 46
... the canes : Suffice it to say , that a large shingled roof , of a conical form , about 30 feet diameter , being supported by twelve or fixteen strong strong hard wood posts , fix or seven feet high 46 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... the canes : Suffice it to say , that a large shingled roof , of a conical form , about 30 feet diameter , being supported by twelve or fixteen strong strong hard wood posts , fix or seven feet high 46 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 47
J. B. Moreton. strong hard wood posts , fix or seven feet high , erected on an eminence contiguous to the boiling- house , beneath the centre of which roof three iron rollers are fixed upright and quite close together ; each roller is ...
J. B. Moreton. strong hard wood posts , fix or seven feet high , erected on an eminence contiguous to the boiling- house , beneath the centre of which roof three iron rollers are fixed upright and quite close together ; each roller is ...
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