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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J. B. Moreton. MANNERS AND CUSTOMS IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . MY DEAR FRIEND ! Α SI understand you intend to go shortly to Jamaica , and I prefume an entire stranger to the nature of that climate and the people thereof , I think it a ...
J. B. Moreton. MANNERS AND CUSTOMS IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . MY DEAR FRIEND ! Α SI understand you intend to go shortly to Jamaica , and I prefume an entire stranger to the nature of that climate and the people thereof , I think it a ...
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... Friend and Pitcher . How happy is the doctor's fate In that fweet clime : he once gets footing , Ador'd by all on each estate , Enjoys his girl , and wants for nothing . His pills and potions coft not much , Tho ' all his skill is a ...
... Friend and Pitcher . How happy is the doctor's fate In that fweet clime : he once gets footing , Ador'd by all on each estate , Enjoys his girl , and wants for nothing . His pills and potions coft not much , Tho ' all his skill is a ...
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... at once to die , " He's paft all cure " -a putrid lump was I ! A feeling friend , with thoughtless simple art , Did wondrous health and ftrength to me impart Quacks , 4 Quacks , in general , make as free with their 20 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... at once to die , " He's paft all cure " -a putrid lump was I ! A feeling friend , with thoughtless simple art , Did wondrous health and ftrength to me impart Quacks , 4 Quacks , in general , make as free with their 20 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
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... friends also , so that it never costs him any thing for board , washing and lodging , corn , or grafs . The common charge for each negroe , whether they are fick or well , is five fhillings yearly , befides the benefit of venereals ...
... friends also , so that it never costs him any thing for board , washing and lodging , corn , or grafs . The common charge for each negroe , whether they are fick or well , is five fhillings yearly , befides the benefit of venereals ...
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... friends , is materially injured . He that would wish to be a planter , fhould attend the field from morning until night , obferve the nature of different foils , line the ground , keep a journal for his own inftruction , pay ftrict ...
... friends , is materially injured . He that would wish to be a planter , fhould attend the field from morning until night , obferve the nature of different foils , line the ground , keep a journal for his own inftruction , pay ftrict ...
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