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 16
... be furrounded by another kind of insects , about the fize of midges , called mufquittoes , buzzing in your ears their disagreeable tunes : they have long tubes or ftings , which they pierce through clothes or ftockings till they get ...
... be furrounded by another kind of insects , about the fize of midges , called mufquittoes , buzzing in your ears their disagreeable tunes : they have long tubes or ftings , which they pierce through clothes or ftockings till they get ...
الصفحة 36
... the fpoils of war , plundered from infatuated tars ; this is quite common ; nay , people of every rank and denomination , to their fhame , devote the fabbaths to every kind of vice and diffipation ; driving like madmen in kitterines ...
... the fpoils of war , plundered from infatuated tars ; this is quite common ; nay , people of every rank and denomination , to their fhame , devote the fabbaths to every kind of vice and diffipation ; driving like madmen in kitterines ...
الصفحة 41
The woods afford fhelter for vaft numbers of wild cattle and fwine , and fome deer : I have fomethes fhot a fat cattle of this kind , and frequently wild hogs ; the latter are excellent when barbacued maroon fashion .
The woods afford fhelter for vaft numbers of wild cattle and fwine , and fome deer : I have fomethes fhot a fat cattle of this kind , and frequently wild hogs ; the latter are excellent when barbacued maroon fashion .
الصفحة 59
A colt will fell for 30 , 40 , 50 , or 60l . an ox for 201. a fat fheep for 40s . and after the first four or five years , I fhould suppose a penn of this kind would annually have E 2 forty forty colts , forty oxen , and one hundred ...
A colt will fell for 30 , 40 , 50 , or 60l . an ox for 201. a fat fheep for 40s . and after the first four or five years , I fhould suppose a penn of this kind would annually have E 2 forty forty colts , forty oxen , and one hundred ...
الصفحة 62
... an honorable gentleman of this kind in St. James ' parish ; the gate being locked , I knocked feveral times ; but how great was my furprize when a mufket ball came whistling by my ears ; a negroe came running to me , and faid ...
... an honorable gentleman of this kind in St. James ' parish ; the gate being locked , I knocked feveral times ; but how great was my furprize when a mufket ball came whistling by my ears ; a negroe came running to me , and faid ...
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