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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الصفحة 36
Every one of those grog shop keepers keep a horse and kitterine , that is , a one horse chaise , and on sundays drive about the town and country , like ladies and gentlemen , superbly decorated in fineries ; the spoils of war ...
Every one of those grog shop keepers keep a horse and kitterine , that is , a one horse chaise , and on sundays drive about the town and country , like ladies and gentlemen , superbly decorated in fineries ; the spoils of war ...
الصفحة 42
The pastures , particularly the Guinea grass , of which I shall speak more fully hereafter , are excellent for fattening horses and cattle . Travellers have been as well pleased with the beef , mutton , pork , and poultry of Jamaica ...
The pastures , particularly the Guinea grass , of which I shall speak more fully hereafter , are excellent for fattening horses and cattle . Travellers have been as well pleased with the beef , mutton , pork , and poultry of Jamaica ...
الصفحة 61
liberal and generous ideas ; as there are not regular taverns to be met with in the country , it is quite customary for travelling people to call on each other , though strangers , for refreshment for themfelves , servants , and horses ...
liberal and generous ideas ; as there are not regular taverns to be met with in the country , it is quite customary for travelling people to call on each other , though strangers , for refreshment for themfelves , servants , and horses ...
الصفحة 63
It is something surprising to think what frequent executions take place ; the news papers teem with little more than that of sales , vendues , houses and lands to be rented , runaway negroes , and strayed horses .
It is something surprising to think what frequent executions take place ; the news papers teem with little more than that of sales , vendues , houses and lands to be rented , runaway negroes , and strayed horses .
الصفحة 73
... Europe to check the attorney's proceedings ; for the attornies appoint both managers and overseers , and discharge them at pleasure . E An An attorney commonly supplies himself and friends with horses , IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS .
... Europe to check the attorney's proceedings ; for the attornies appoint both managers and overseers , and discharge them at pleasure . E An An attorney commonly supplies himself and friends with horses , IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS .
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almoſt alſo amongſt appear attend attorney beſt better blood book-keepers buſineſs called canes carry cattle cent commonly corn Creole cure dear drink eight eſtate favour feet field firſt five fond four frequently friends gentlemen give ground hands heart hero himſelf horſes houſe human hundred ignorant iſland Jamaica juſtice keep kind known ladies laſt leaſt liquor live manager manner maſter means merchants mind miſs Mongrel morning moſt muſt nature Naves negroes never night obliged obſerve once overſeers pain particularly perſon plantation planting pleaſe poor ſame ſay ſee ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall ſome ſtock ſuch ſugar taken themſelves theſe thing thoſe thouſand till tion town turn uſe waſhed Weſt Indies whole wine wiſh women woods young yourſelf