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 13
... fame uniform of their custom - house officers ; their charac- teristic is , that they are poor , proud , super- stitious and treacherous ; the finest of their wonen , some hundreds of them , are cooped up in convents ; what pity that ...
... fame uniform of their custom - house officers ; their charac- teristic is , that they are poor , proud , super- stitious and treacherous ; the finest of their wonen , some hundreds of them , are cooped up in convents ; what pity that ...
الصفحة 28
... fame fort of matter through the vessels to the parts it corrodes ; it is somewhat odd to me , that men are more liable than women to contract the disease , confidering the difference of the organs of generation in both ; the first ...
... fame fort of matter through the vessels to the parts it corrodes ; it is somewhat odd to me , that men are more liable than women to contract the disease , confidering the difference of the organs of generation in both ; the first ...
الصفحة 30
... fame ( the day you take a purge excepted ) ; at night repeat the bolus , and the third day repeat the purge ; if in fix days you do not find the running and inflam- mation i } mation much abated , repeat the bolufes and elec- 30 MANNERS ...
... fame ( the day you take a purge excepted ) ; at night repeat the bolus , and the third day repeat the purge ; if in fix days you do not find the running and inflam- mation i } mation much abated , repeat the bolufes and elec- 30 MANNERS ...
الصفحة 44
... fame , two in a row , and co- vered lightly with part of the bank . If seasonable rains happen , they will sprout up in a few days from every joint , something like young grass ; in about three or four weeks afterwards the negroes weed ...
... fame , two in a row , and co- vered lightly with part of the bank . If seasonable rains happen , they will sprout up in a few days from every joint , something like young grass ; in about three or four weeks afterwards the negroes weed ...
الصفحة 64
... are very precarious ; I have known falt provisions 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 less than 64 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... are very precarious ; I have known falt provisions 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 less than 64 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
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