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 64
There are some extensive merchants in Kingstown , Spanish Town , Montego
Bay , & c . a few of whom are English and Irish , but ten times the number of
Scotch ; they all in general live elegantly ; it is not thought strange for a peasant's
son ...
There are some extensive merchants in Kingstown , Spanish Town , Montego
Bay , & c . a few of whom are English and Irish , but ten times the number of
Scotch ; they all in general live elegantly ; it is not thought strange for a peasant's
son ...
الصفحة 97
As merchants in general are batchelors , they dine at ordinaries ; their clerks are
obliged to find themselves in board , washing , and sometimes lodging ; 1
lodging ; and though one gets a falary of IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 97.
As merchants in general are batchelors , they dine at ordinaries ; their clerks are
obliged to find themselves in board , washing , and sometimes lodging ; 1
lodging ; and though one gets a falary of IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 97.
الصفحة 99
c . all which would require another 1421 , Now , as it appears from what I have
said , that clerks save nothing , but rather involve themselves in debt , you may
ask , “ how is it possible that they can ever become merchants , or great men ?
c . all which would require another 1421 , Now , as it appears from what I have
said , that clerks save nothing , but rather involve themselves in debt , you may
ask , “ how is it possible that they can ever become merchants , or great men ?
الصفحة 100
... and turn merchant ; indeed any huckster or grog - shop keeper with care ,
industry , and a little roguery , will make money fast , and may commence a
merchant ; a young man who is sent out supercargo , if he conducts himself very
prudently ...
... and turn merchant ; indeed any huckster or grog - shop keeper with care ,
industry , and a little roguery , will make money fast , and may commence a
merchant ; a young man who is sent out supercargo , if he conducts himself very
prudently ...
الصفحة 128
c . for which each gentleman pays three or four dollars : lawyers , merchants and
clerks , & c . frequent such assemblies , and promiscuously meet and joftle each
other : I have spent many merry nights at such balls . When you are sometime in ...
c . for which each gentleman pays three or four dollars : lawyers , merchants and
clerks , & c . frequent such assemblies , and promiscuously meet and joftle each
other : I have spent many merry nights at such balls . When you are sometime in ...
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