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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... Creoles Cudjo , King Doctors Dog - wood Doves , various kinds Drinking Europeans , advice to them Earthquakes Executions English Adventurers Executors Fonchial , in Madeira Fire - flies , or glow - worms Fevers Fungee , an Overfeer Grog ...
... Creoles Cudjo , King Doctors Dog - wood Doves , various kinds Drinking Europeans , advice to them Earthquakes Executions English Adventurers Executors Fonchial , in Madeira Fire - flies , or glow - worms Fevers Fungee , an Overfeer Grog ...
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... Creoles alfo ; it often amazed me to find how imperceptibly my flesh melted , or stole away from my fkin and bones , till I became the ghoft of what I had been . To - day , as it were , I was healthy and ftout , and in a few weeks after ...
... Creoles alfo ; it often amazed me to find how imperceptibly my flesh melted , or stole away from my fkin and bones , till I became the ghoft of what I had been . To - day , as it were , I was healthy and ftout , and in a few weeks after ...
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... received very politely ; he made feveral apologies for his rafhness ; that he took me to be a marfhal , & c . & c . He had an elegant house , and a fine fine parcel of creole ladies about him , and they 62 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... received very politely ; he made feveral apologies for his rafhness ; that he took me to be a marfhal , & c . & c . He had an elegant house , and a fine fine parcel of creole ladies about him , and they 62 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
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J. B. Moreton. fine parcel of creole ladies about him , and they lived moft luxurioufly , in defiance of the law ! * / There is a law of the island favouring infolvent debtors , by which any perfon in the space of three months , by ...
J. B. Moreton. fine parcel of creole ladies about him , and they lived moft luxurioufly , in defiance of the law ! * / There is a law of the island favouring infolvent debtors , by which any perfon in the space of three months , by ...
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... creole children , as foon as they begin to lifp , are taught to tyrannize over their domeftics ; thus , custom , the defpotic ruler of reafon , is dead to the voice of humanity , and fmothers benevolence and charity . The company and ...
... creole children , as foon as they begin to lifp , are taught to tyrannize over their domeftics ; thus , custom , the defpotic ruler of reafon , is dead to the voice of humanity , and fmothers benevolence and charity . The company and ...
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