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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... fo that he commonly gets about one hundred , or one hundred and fifty pounds for the attendance of the negroes and and whites on each plantation yearly , and all that for about thirty fhillings worth of medicine .
... fo that he commonly gets about one hundred , or one hundred and fifty pounds for the attendance of the negroes and and whites on each plantation yearly , and all that for about thirty fhillings worth of medicine .
الصفحة 38
May and October are commonly the rainy months , at which time the rains , ( or feasons , as they are called ) fet in , and violently fall for feveral days ; fometimes in rapid torrents , com → pofing innumerable rivers and gullies ...
May and October are commonly the rainy months , at which time the rains , ( or feasons , as they are called ) fet in , and violently fall for feveral days ; fometimes in rapid torrents , com → pofing innumerable rivers and gullies ...
الصفحة 39
mountains until the waters abate ; these heavy rains are commonly attended with dreadful thunder and lightning , and fometimes hurricanes , which blast the canes through the air like chaff , tear up the largest trees by the roots ...
mountains until the waters abate ; these heavy rains are commonly attended with dreadful thunder and lightning , and fometimes hurricanes , which blast the canes through the air like chaff , tear up the largest trees by the roots ...
الصفحة 45
weed and mould them tenderly , and fo on from time to time until all the bank is level to their roots ; after which they are weeded occafionally until they grow fix or seven feet high ; they are commonly ripe in about twelve months from ...
weed and mould them tenderly , and fo on from time to time until all the bank is level to their roots ; after which they are weeded occafionally until they grow fix or seven feet high ; they are commonly ripe in about twelve months from ...
الصفحة 46
Burnt canes make a fort of dirty black fugar without any grain , fomething like that which the Indians extract from the maple - tree in Canada , which is commonly referved for the use of the fick negroes , or converted into rum ; I faw ...
Burnt canes make a fort of dirty black fugar without any grain , fomething like that which the Indians extract from the maple - tree in Canada , which is commonly referved for the use of the fick negroes , or converted into rum ; I faw ...
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