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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... beautiful and furprising ftructure is a well built Thip ! Wherein we can fwiftly and fecurely travel in defiance of the winds and waves , over the moft dreadful monfters of the deep , and visit the remoteft quarters of the globe . " Eye ...
... beautiful and furprising ftructure is a well built Thip ! Wherein we can fwiftly and fecurely travel in defiance of the winds and waves , over the moft dreadful monfters of the deep , and visit the remoteft quarters of the globe . " Eye ...
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... beautiful village of Halfway Tree , feafting , drinking , gambling , or in the company of lewd mongrel women . Sunday is the greatest market day ; the negroes from all parts of the country flock to town , hundreds of them in a gang ...
... beautiful village of Halfway Tree , feafting , drinking , gambling , or in the company of lewd mongrel women . Sunday is the greatest market day ; the negroes from all parts of the country flock to town , hundreds of them in a gang ...
الصفحة 40
... beautiful when polish- ed , and the fruit , though beautiful to the eye , are rank poifon ; fo that if even the rain which re- mained any time on the leaves , falls on a perfon's fkin , the parts blifter immediately , and if a drop ...
... beautiful when polish- ed , and the fruit , though beautiful to the eye , are rank poifon ; fo that if even the rain which re- mained any time on the leaves , falls on a perfon's fkin , the parts blifter immediately , and if a drop ...
الصفحة 43
... beautiful ftrait trenches , quite square . There is little or no difficulty in lining level ground ; but hills require fome care and pains ; for the holes must be dug in fuch a manner , that after rains every part may retain an equal ...
... beautiful ftrait trenches , quite square . There is little or no difficulty in lining level ground ; but hills require fome care and pains ; for the holes must be dug in fuch a manner , that after rains every part may retain an equal ...
الصفحة 116
... beautiful blufhes : they feemed all lovely , all di- vine ; nor did their female fable attendants , which were dreffed in white , as emblems of inno- cence , cut a defpicable figure . cr During dinner the gentlemen were as polite as ...
... beautiful blufhes : they feemed all lovely , all di- vine ; nor did their female fable attendants , which were dreffed in white , as emblems of inno- cence , cut a defpicable figure . cr During dinner the gentlemen were as polite as ...
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