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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... fond of rum or brandy , yet they are fond to fee strong liquors given in generous portions to the failors ; and when they meet with griping low- life passengers , woe betide them ! They will not only shave them with a rusty iron hoop ...
... fond of rum or brandy , yet they are fond to fee strong liquors given in generous portions to the failors ; and when they meet with griping low- life passengers , woe betide them ! They will not only shave them with a rusty iron hoop ...
الصفحة 25
... fond of milk , or any thing that will curdle on your stomach . Eat no suppers , and go to bed quite fober every night , and you will enjoy good health . Fruit , such as pine apples , star apples , and melons , are grateful , about ten ...
... fond of milk , or any thing that will curdle on your stomach . Eat no suppers , and go to bed quite fober every night , and you will enjoy good health . Fruit , such as pine apples , star apples , and melons , are grateful , about ten ...
الصفحة 40
... fond of mirth and society , yet I often like retirement , and have often enjoyed the greatest rapture of mind when wrapped ! wrapped in dear delightful folitude , amidst the rocky grottos 40 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS ! ...
... fond of mirth and society , yet I often like retirement , and have often enjoyed the greatest rapture of mind when wrapped ! wrapped in dear delightful folitude , amidst the rocky grottos 40 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS ! ...
الصفحة 65
... fond of gold and silver , and very expert at mixing base metals together , and polishing and gilding the same ; these foreskin- clipped scoundrels have clipped and sweated almost all the coin , so that every unmilled piece of gold is ...
... fond of gold and silver , and very expert at mixing base metals together , and polishing and gilding the same ; these foreskin- clipped scoundrels have clipped and sweated almost all the coin , so that every unmilled piece of gold is ...
الصفحة 68
... fond of dry'd pork to a longing degree ; Which cruel afperfion they only suppose , Because there's a mark of a pig on my nose ; I'm deem'd a Mulatto , a cheat , and a knave , And threat'n'd to be fold for an African slave ! Now keen ...
... fond of dry'd pork to a longing degree ; Which cruel afperfion they only suppose , Because there's a mark of a pig on my nose ; I'm deem'd a Mulatto , a cheat , and a knave , And threat'n'd to be fold for an African slave ! Now keen ...
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