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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... five years in that island ; and should what I shall offer , prove any way instrumental in promoting your happiness , I shall hereafter feel a secret satisfaction for hav- ing employed a few vacant hours so well . After your departue ...
... five years in that island ; and should what I shall offer , prove any way instrumental in promoting your happiness , I shall hereafter feel a secret satisfaction for hav- ing employed a few vacant hours so well . After your departue ...
الصفحة 13
... five hundred houses , the natives are Portuguese , and dress in the 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 ...
... five hundred houses , the natives are Portuguese , and dress in the 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 ...
الصفحة 15
... five or fix gallons of rum more than your fea - stock for that day , and to take about ten gallons more to distribute occasionally to the failors ; it is the only way to gain their affections ; but obferve , when- ever you wish to give ...
... five or fix gallons of rum more than your fea - stock for that day , and to take about ten gallons more to distribute occasionally to the failors ; it is the only way to gain their affections ; but obferve , when- ever you wish to give ...
الصفحة 16
... five more senses , they would be all engaged ; the compounded stench of damaged beef , pork , herrings , butter , cheese , & c . & c . with fugar , rum and molasses , frying on the waves , to- gether with the intense heat , and the ...
... five more senses , they would be all engaged ; the compounded stench of damaged beef , pork , herrings , butter , cheese , & c . & c . with fugar , rum and molasses , frying on the waves , to- gether with the intense heat , and the ...
الصفحة 21
... five shillings yearly , besides the benefit of venereals , for which he makes a separate charge , so that he commonly gets about one hundred , or one hundred and fifty pounds for the attendance of the negroes and and whites on each ...
... five shillings yearly , besides the benefit of venereals , for which he makes a separate charge , so that he commonly gets about one hundred , or one hundred and fifty pounds for the attendance of the negroes and and whites on each ...
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