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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... falt beef , or pork ; in fhort , as foon as they had got a piece of beef and a few glaffes of port , they departed well pleased ; in like manner they paid their devoirs to each fhip ( the fleet confifted of one hundred and eighty fail ) ...
... falt beef , or pork ; in fhort , as foon as they had got a piece of beef and a few glaffes of port , they departed well pleased ; in like manner they paid their devoirs to each fhip ( the fleet confifted of one hundred and eighty fail ) ...
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... falt and finoked meats , fpirits , beer and fpices , and to live as temperate and low as poffible ; bread , penada , barley gruel , lintfeed tea , and fuch like , fhould be your only nourishment for a few days ; you will find the good ...
... falt and finoked meats , fpirits , beer and fpices , and to live as temperate and low as poffible ; bread , penada , barley gruel , lintfeed tea , and fuch like , fhould be your only nourishment for a few days ; you will find the good ...
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... ! The markets are very precarious ; I have known falt provifions to fell at one hundred and fifty per cent . profit one week , and the fame fold again in the the course of a few weeks afterwards for lefs than 64 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... ! The markets are very precarious ; I have known falt provifions to fell at one hundred and fifty per cent . profit one week , and the fame fold again in the the course of a few weeks afterwards for lefs than 64 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 67
... falt , pork , and rice , I expected to get an extravagant price : And buoy'd myself up , that I wou'd not repent ; But to fell them , at least , at five hundred per cent . The first of December , I think , was the day , That I fet off ...
... falt , pork , and rice , I expected to get an extravagant price : And buoy'd myself up , that I wou'd not repent ; But to fell them , at least , at five hundred per cent . The first of December , I think , was the day , That I fet off ...
الصفحة 68
... falt - pork , and ground - nuts , will hardly pay freight ; My chinkapins , dry - fish , and herrings , I fear , Won't bring me firft - coft : O what brought me here ! All merchandize now is at such a low rate , That , alafs ! I can't ...
... falt - pork , and ground - nuts , will hardly pay freight ; My chinkapins , dry - fish , and herrings , I fear , Won't bring me firft - coft : O what brought me here ! All merchandize now is at such a low rate , That , alafs ! I can't ...
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