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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الصفحة 66
... assist each other with money or credit ; so that in a very few years the poorest wandering Jerufalemite will ac- cumulate wealth , they all live miferably mean upon planting , and some trash of damaged her- rings , and other saltfish ...
... assist each other with money or credit ; so that in a very few years the poorest wandering Jerufalemite will ac- cumulate wealth , they all live miferably mean upon planting , and some trash of damaged her- rings , and other saltfish ...
الصفحة 68
... Who fwears he'll assist me to cheat at vendue ; * When he prayed , he stripped his arın naked and girded it , and . wore a leathern horn on his forehead . Where Where , if I fucceed , I will fettle content 68 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... Who fwears he'll assist me to cheat at vendue ; * When he prayed , he stripped his arın naked and girded it , and . wore a leathern horn on his forehead . Where Where , if I fucceed , I will fettle content 68 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 96
... not touch the beef , assists to extract the juice.- NOTE , that if fresh beef , or meat of any kind , is not falted in time , that is , the day it is killed , it will i will not keep after ; and if meat , though 96 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... not touch the beef , assists to extract the juice.- NOTE , that if fresh beef , or meat of any kind , is not falted in time , that is , the day it is killed , it will i will not keep after ; and if meat , though 96 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 131
... assist you with any thing in her power , for many of them are good- natured : and this I hope you will observe ; though you make one of them your companion by night , do not be seen in a public place by day with her , nor do not ...
... assist you with any thing in her power , for many of them are good- natured : and this I hope you will observe ; though you make one of them your companion by night , do not be seen in a public place by day with her , nor do not ...
الصفحة 150
... assist to work their grounds ; the wo- men prog for food , boil their pots at noon and night , louse their heads , extract chiggers from their toes , and wash their frocks and trowsers . I shall here submit the complaint of a negroe man ...
... assist to work their grounds ; the wo- men prog for food , boil their pots at noon and night , louse their heads , extract chiggers from their toes , and wash their frocks and trowsers . I shall here submit the complaint of a negroe man ...
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