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 Edition |
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... her original position , and force her way through seas foaming with madness in
almost opposite direction to the winds : to sink unhurt between faline rolling hills ,
and rise and glide again triumphant over the furious tops of liquid mountains .
... her original position , and force her way through seas foaming with madness in
almost opposite direction to the winds : to sink unhurt between faline rolling hills ,
and rise and glide again triumphant over the furious tops of liquid mountains .
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with my conftitution in other respects : I assure you , it is not one in ten European
constitution could bear the hardships I have undergone : three years
successively I have been exposed , all weathers , to the sun's almost intolerable
heat , and ...
with my conftitution in other respects : I assure you , it is not one in ten European
constitution could bear the hardships I have undergone : three years
successively I have been exposed , all weathers , to the sun's almost intolerable
heat , and ...
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fellow creatures , friends and acquantance , daily devoured by the carion crows ;
so that out of fif . teen hundred volunteers , only eighteen or twenty returned to tell
the doleful tale ; the troops fared almost as bad . Governor Campbell ...
fellow creatures , friends and acquantance , daily devoured by the carion crows ;
so that out of fif . teen hundred volunteers , only eighteen or twenty returned to tell
the doleful tale ; the troops fared almost as bad . Governor Campbell ...
الصفحة 130
Indeed , it is very difficult , and almost impofsible for any young man , though ever
ío prudent , to live amongst them for any length of time , without having unlawful
connections with them : they have too many alluring temptacions to lead men ...
Indeed , it is very difficult , and almost impofsible for any young man , though ever
ío prudent , to live amongst them for any length of time , without having unlawful
connections with them : they have too many alluring temptacions to lead men ...
الصفحة 179
This fort of gentry , in almost every company , expose their ignorance and shew
their pedantry , by boasting of their great connections , courage and gallantry :
even those who may not have a grain of merit in their gross compositions .-- " I
have ...
This fort of gentry , in almost every company , expose their ignorance and shew
their pedantry , by boasting of their great connections , courage and gallantry :
even those who may not have a grain of merit in their gross compositions .-- " I
have ...
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almoſt alſo amongſt appear attend attorney beſt better book-keepers buſineſs called canes carry cattle cent commonly corn Creole cure dear drink eight eſtate favour feet field firſt five fond four frequently friends gentlemen give ground hands heart hero himſelf horſes houſe human hundred ignorant iſland Jamaica juſtice keep kind known ladies laſt leaſt liquor live manager manner maſter means merchants mind miſs Mongrel morning moſt muſt nature Naves negroes never night obliged obſerve once overſeers pain particularly perſon plantation planting pleaſe poor ſame ſay ſee ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall ſome ſtock ſuch ſugar taken themſelves theſe thing thoſe thouſand till tion town turn uſe waſhed wenches Weſt Indies whole wine wiſh women woods young yourſelf