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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... fuch light that you may read a book thereby . You will aso be surrounded by another kind of infects , about the size of midges , called muf- quittoes , buzzing in your ears their disagreeable tunes : they have long tubes or stings ...
... fuch light that you may read a book thereby . You will aso be surrounded by another kind of infects , about the size of midges , called muf- quittoes , buzzing in your ears their disagreeable tunes : they have long tubes or stings ...
الصفحة 23
... fuch ill - timed bathing afterwards . When I quitted the severe toils of a planter's life , and lived regular in town , I found the climate to agree tolerably well with me , and I was as active as I am now , thank God ; therefore ...
... fuch ill - timed bathing afterwards . When I quitted the severe toils of a planter's life , and lived regular in town , I found the climate to agree tolerably well with me , and I was as active as I am now , thank God ; therefore ...
الصفحة 29
... fuch parts bending it crooked , and is felt in erec- tions which are involuntary and more frequent than when natural ; it often occafions a flux of blood and matter , and is attended with great pain when the patient is making water ...
... fuch parts bending it crooked , and is felt in erec- tions which are involuntary and more frequent than when natural ; it often occafions a flux of blood and matter , and is attended with great pain when the patient is making water ...
الصفحة 31
... fuch as butter , cheese , and fat ; all windy and flatulent food , fuch as vegetables of all kinds , falt and finoked meats , spirits , beer and spices , and to live as temperate and low as poffible ; bread , penada , barley gruel ...
... fuch as butter , cheese , and fat ; all windy and flatulent food , fuch as vegetables of all kinds , falt and finoked meats , spirits , beer and spices , and to live as temperate and low as poffible ; bread , penada , barley gruel ...
الصفحة 40
... fuch as locust , mastic , bull - tree , dog- wood , brasilitto , mahogany and cedars , as huge and lofty as the cedars of Lebanon ; also lignum- vitæ , which yields that valuable medicine , gum- guiacum ; the ceiba , or filk cotton ...
... fuch as locust , mastic , bull - tree , dog- wood , brasilitto , mahogany and cedars , as huge and lofty as the cedars of Lebanon ; also lignum- vitæ , which yields that valuable medicine , gum- guiacum ; the ceiba , or filk cotton ...
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