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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After your departue , you probably will be fea fick for a few days ; I am forry that I never could learn any cure for that naufeous difagreeable malady but to eat and drink , and to walk the deck B as as much as poffible ; vomits and ...
After your departue , you probably will be fea fick for a few days ; I am forry that I never could learn any cure for that naufeous difagreeable malady but to eat and drink , and to walk the deck B as as much as poffible ; vomits and ...
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... ( a venerable pair , infinitely older than Methufalem ) who conftantly attend the latitude of 23 ° 30 ' , ready to fhave all paffengers who have never paffed that way before ; and though they are not fond of rum or brandy , yet they ...
... ( a venerable pair , infinitely older than Methufalem ) who conftantly attend the latitude of 23 ° 30 ' , ready to fhave all paffengers who have never paffed that way before ; and though they are not fond of rum or brandy , yet they ...
الصفحة 18
... to pronounce the names of the few medicines they ufe , commit murder and deftruction amongst the human race of every denomination ; real phyficians are rarely to be met with , indeed ; I never heard of any there , fave only Meffrs .
... to pronounce the names of the few medicines they ufe , commit murder and deftruction amongst the human race of every denomination ; real phyficians are rarely to be met with , indeed ; I never heard of any there , fave only Meffrs .
الصفحة 21
... he is looked upon as an Efculapeus of the times by the managers and overseers , and gets the quackery of them and their friends also , so that it never costs him any thing for board , washing and lodging , corn , or grafs .
... he is looked upon as an Efculapeus of the times by the managers and overseers , and gets the quackery of them and their friends also , so that it never costs him any thing for board , washing and lodging , corn , or grafs .
الصفحة 23
... January and February ; when fainting beneath his meridian rays . for want of a cooling breeze , I frequently plunged myself into a river or gully , though I never experienced the bad effect of fuch ill - timed bathing afterwards .
... January and February ; when fainting beneath his meridian rays . for want of a cooling breeze , I frequently plunged myself into a river or gully , though I never experienced the bad effect of fuch ill - timed bathing afterwards .
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