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 EditionJ. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 - 192 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 34
... ladies and gentlemen hold publick balls and affemblies ; there are alfo two free mafon lodges , to wit , Saint Andrew's and Saint Patrick's ; both Scotch and Irish keep up that ancient , honourable , and friendly fociety monthly , and ...
... ladies and gentlemen hold publick balls and affemblies ; there are alfo two free mafon lodges , to wit , Saint Andrew's and Saint Patrick's ; both Scotch and Irish keep up that ancient , honourable , and friendly fociety monthly , and ...
الصفحة 36
... ladies and gentlemen , fuperbly decorated in fineries , 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 ...
... ladies and gentlemen , fuperbly decorated in fineries , 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 ...
الصفحة 62
... very politely ; he made feveral apologies for his rafhness ; that he took me to be a marfhal , & c . & c . He had an elegant house , and a fine fine parcel of creole ladies about him , and they 62 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... very politely ; he made feveral apologies for his rafhness ; that he took me to be a marfhal , & c . & c . He had an elegant house , and a fine fine parcel of creole ladies about him , and they 62 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 63
J. B. Moreton. fine parcel of creole ladies about him , and they lived moft luxurioufly , in defiance of the law ! * / There is a law of the island favouring infolvent debtors , by which any perfon in the space of three months , by ...
J. B. Moreton. fine parcel of creole ladies about him , and they lived moft luxurioufly , in defiance of the law ! * / There is a law of the island favouring infolvent debtors , by which any perfon in the space of three months , by ...
الصفحة 67
... lady who feem'd very fick , And her hopeful fweet offspring , master Allick . But O ! thofe vile Chriftians henceforth I'll fhun ; I was early , and late , the butt of their fun ;. My * My belt and my * girdle , and * IN THE WEST INDIA ...
... lady who feem'd very fick , And her hopeful fweet offspring , master Allick . But O ! thofe vile Chriftians henceforth I'll fhun ; I was early , and late , the butt of their fun ;. My * My belt and my * girdle , and * IN THE WEST INDIA ...
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