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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الصفحة 15
... bottle amongst them , let it be done after some Tevere toil , or bad weather , having previously got the consent of the captain , or mate , least they get drunk and neglect their duty , and you should be blamed .
... bottle amongst them , let it be done after some Tevere toil , or bad weather , having previously got the consent of the captain , or mate , least they get drunk and neglect their duty , and you should be blamed .
الصفحة 18
... to pronounce the names of the few medicines they use , commit murder and destruction amongst the human race of every denomination ; real physicians are rarely to be met with , irdeed ; I never heard of any there , save only Messrs .
... to pronounce the names of the few medicines they use , commit murder and destruction amongst the human race of every denomination ; real physicians are rarely to be met with , irdeed ; I never heard of any there , save only Messrs .
الصفحة 33
There are about forty towns and villages , amongst which none are worthy of note but Kingston , Saint Jago de la Vega , vulgarly called Spanish Town , Port Royal , and Montego Bay , the rest hardly deserve the name of villages ...
There are about forty towns and villages , amongst which none are worthy of note but Kingston , Saint Jago de la Vega , vulgarly called Spanish Town , Port Royal , and Montego Bay , the rest hardly deserve the name of villages ...
الصفحة 39
The 17th of June , 1692 , Port - Royal was entirely swallowed up ; two thousand lives were lost , and ships now fail over the old town , and anchor amongst the ruins of the houses ; the same day a plantation was removed more than a mile ...
The 17th of June , 1692 , Port - Royal was entirely swallowed up ; two thousand lives were lost , and ships now fail over the old town , and anchor amongst the ruins of the houses ; the same day a plantation was removed more than a mile ...
الصفحة 63
There are about seventy attornies at law , and twenty barristers in the inand ; amongst the latter , the oratorial Mr. Lewis and facetious Mr. Brown have distinguished themselves ; tho ' Mr. Brown is not so fluent in speech as Mr. Lewis ...
There are about seventy attornies at law , and twenty barristers in the inand ; amongst the latter , the oratorial Mr. Lewis and facetious Mr. Brown have distinguished themselves ; tho ' Mr. Brown is not so fluent in speech as Mr. Lewis ...
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