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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MANNERS AND CUSTOMS IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . ... five years in that
island ; and should what I shall offer , prove any way instrumental in promoting
your happiness , I shall hereafter feel a secret satisfaction for hav . ing employed
a ...
MANNERS AND CUSTOMS IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . ... five years in that
island ; and should what I shall offer , prove any way instrumental in promoting
your happiness , I shall hereafter feel a secret satisfaction for hav . ing employed
a ...
الصفحة 32
I shall now proceed to give you a short difcription of the island of Jamaica , and of
the people thereof , their manners and customs . “ Curst be the lines , how
smooth fo e'er they fou ' , « That tend to make one honeft man my foe ; « Give
virtue ...
I shall now proceed to give you a short difcription of the island of Jamaica , and of
the people thereof , their manners and customs . “ Curst be the lines , how
smooth fo e'er they fou ' , « That tend to make one honeft man my foe ; « Give
virtue ...
الصفحة 33
Jamaica is the richest of all the British WestIndia islands , and is situated between
17 and 189 north latitude , and between 75 ... This island is composed of huge
and lofty rocky mountains , hills , valleys and plains , and is in three divisions , viz
...
Jamaica is the richest of all the British WestIndia islands , and is situated between
17 and 189 north latitude , and between 75 ... This island is composed of huge
and lofty rocky mountains , hills , valleys and plains , and is in three divisions , viz
...
الصفحة 133
... who , though they were married to amiable ladies , wantonly roved from
Mongrel to Mongrel , from black flower to black flower , and had spurious
progenies of different coloured children dispersed all over the island ; and when
they get ...
... who , though they were married to amiable ladies , wantonly roved from
Mongrel to Mongrel , from black flower to black flower , and had spurious
progenies of different coloured children dispersed all over the island ; and when
they get ...
الصفحة 135
업 le ! didly told me , that when the island was taken by the Spaniards , his
ancestors would not surrender themselves , but resolved to be free , or perish ;
and held out so long in the woods , that having killed several of the English , and
tired ...
업 le ! didly told me , that when the island was taken by the Spaniards , his
ancestors would not surrender themselves , but resolved to be free , or perish ;
and held out so long in the woods , that having killed several of the English , and
tired ...
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