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 62
... an honorable gentleman of this kind in St. James ' parish ; the gate being
locked , I knocked several times ; but how great was my surprize when a musket
ball came whistling by my ears ; a negroe came running to me , and said , “ Maffa
will ...
... an honorable gentleman of this kind in St. James ' parish ; the gate being
locked , I knocked several times ; but how great was my surprize when a musket
ball came whistling by my ears ; a negroe came running to me , and said , “ Maffa
will ...
الصفحة 94
... up early every morning to hasten to the field to call the list and return to feed
the small stock , and to count them exactly ; he must keep an exact account +
account of the increase and decrease of each kind , 94 MANNERS AND
CUSTOMS.
... up early every morning to hasten to the field to call the list and return to feed
the small stock , and to count them exactly ; he must keep an exact account +
account of the increase and decrease of each kind , 94 MANNERS AND
CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 95
account of the increase and decrease of each kind , and must mark even the date
on the eggs , so that he may see the oldest sec first . He must every morning
enter in his book the number of each kind that are with egg , least the stock -
house ...
account of the increase and decrease of each kind , and must mark even the date
on the eggs , so that he may see the oldest sec first . He must every morning
enter in his book the number of each kind that are with egg , least the stock -
house ...
الصفحة 96
... with Oznabrig or sacking sheets , shielded with a pavilion of the same kind . A
book - keeper is obliged to superintend every domestic transaction : when a
sheep or a hog is killed , he must stand by and direct a negroe how to falt it ; and
as it ...
... with Oznabrig or sacking sheets , shielded with a pavilion of the same kind . A
book - keeper is obliged to superintend every domestic transaction : when a
sheep or a hog is killed , he must stand by and direct a negroe how to falt it ; and
as it ...
الصفحة 105
emaciated to appearance ; their contrarious characteristic is , that they are open -
hearted , generous , kind and hospitable to excess ; proud , vain , high - spirited
and fighty to an extreme ; lazy , dull , and indolent , in all industrious mata ters ...
emaciated to appearance ; their contrarious characteristic is , that they are open -
hearted , generous , kind and hospitable to excess ; proud , vain , high - spirited
and fighty to an extreme ; lazy , dull , and indolent , in all industrious mata ters ...
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almoſt alſo amongſt appear attend attorney beſt better 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 wenches Weſt Indies whole wine wiſh women woods young yourſelf