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 Edition |
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... and are troubled with fuch extreme itching , that if the hands were not tied , the wounded perfon could not avoid fcratching ; and those who don't take care of their nails , foon have their legs inflamed with difagreeable fores : I ...
... and are troubled with fuch extreme itching , that if the hands were not tied , the wounded perfon could not avoid fcratching ; and those who don't take care of their nails , foon have their legs inflamed with difagreeable fores : I ...
الصفحة 51
The greatest care and attention of the manager and overfeers during crop are requifite ; for the whole produce of the year , which coft such vast labour and expence , go through hands in three or four months ; and good or bad management ...
The greatest care and attention of the manager and overfeers during crop are requifite ; for the whole produce of the year , which coft such vast labour and expence , go through hands in three or four months ; and good or bad management ...
الصفحة 76
I am thankful to you for your kind present of Madeira , malmfy , porter , cheese , and hams ; they all came to hand in fine order ; the Madeira is excellent ! Mr. Ahmuty writes me , that it is best London particular ; you will lay me ...
I am thankful to you for your kind present of Madeira , malmfy , porter , cheese , and hams ; they all came to hand in fine order ; the Madeira is excellent ! Mr. Ahmuty writes me , that it is best London particular ; you will lay me ...
الصفحة 91
My driver I've made crazy , The flaves under due command ; He still , when they are lazy , Pays them with an iron hand . Whether they are fick or well , Or had a long hungry spell ; Every crack fhall fairly tell , Whilft I'm a cowskin ...
My driver I've made crazy , The flaves under due command ; He still , when they are lazy , Pays them with an iron hand . Whether they are fick or well , Or had a long hungry spell ; Every crack fhall fairly tell , Whilft I'm a cowskin ...
الصفحة 93
I was warmly recommended to his Excellency general Darling , the honourable Richard Welch , and others ; and though each took me by the hand , and gave me dinners at times , and though I conducted myself as prudent as I poffibly could ...
I was warmly recommended to his Excellency general Darling , the honourable Richard Welch , and others ; and though each took me by the hand , and gave me dinners at times , and though I conducted myself as prudent as I poffibly could ...
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