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 61
... falary of 2000l . which he has from Great - Britain , is , as I was informed , 10,000l . per annum . A late governor , towards the conclufion of his reign , rendered himself obnoxious to the people , and was reprobated and lafhed at ...
... falary of 2000l . which he has from Great - Britain , is , as I was informed , 10,000l . per annum . A late governor , towards the conclufion of his reign , rendered himself obnoxious to the people , and was reprobated and lafhed at ...
الصفحة 73
... falary , and the estate is neglected ; and when it is at a low ebb , the major part of the cane pieces converted into wilds of cattle pastures , a number of the flaves , through hunger and severity , forced to run wild through the ...
... falary , and the estate is neglected ; and when it is at a low ebb , the major part of the cane pieces converted into wilds of cattle pastures , a number of the flaves , through hunger and severity , forced to run wild through the ...
الصفحة 80
... falary would barely pay for clothes , much less the doctor's exorbitant bills ; nor could fuch a one go with alacrity through the menial drudgeries of a book - keeper's life for three , four , or five years ; for he who would wish to be ...
... falary would barely pay for clothes , much less the doctor's exorbitant bills ; nor could fuch a one go with alacrity through the menial drudgeries of a book - keeper's life for three , four , or five years ; for he who would wish to be ...
الصفحة 93
... falary for a book - keeper in the coun- try , is £ 40 per annum , with board , washing and lodging , the fame as the overfeer ; in the wind- ward iflands , book - keepers are not permitted to mess at overfeer's tables , for which reason ...
... falary for a book - keeper in the coun- try , is £ 40 per annum , with board , washing and lodging , the fame as the overfeer ; in the wind- ward iflands , book - keepers are not permitted to mess at overfeer's tables , for which reason ...
الصفحة 97
... falary for a horfe ; for though in the Windward Islands gen- tlemen ride mules , it would be confidered a dif- grace in Jamaica for the pooreft man to ride one ; his fecond year's falary goes to the doctors , and the third to the ...
... falary for a horfe ; for though in the Windward Islands gen- tlemen ride mules , it would be confidered a dif- grace in Jamaica for the pooreft man to ride one ; his fecond year's falary goes to the doctors , and the third to the ...
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