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
... occafion , and afterwards dining all together , and pafssing the evening in mirth and chearfulness . In the morning early it is pleasant to take a walk to Putney Lodge , which lies at the east end of the town ; but it is dangerous to ...
... occafion , and afterwards dining all together , and pafssing the evening in mirth and chearfulness . In the morning early it is pleasant to take a walk to Putney Lodge , which lies at the east end of the town ; but it is dangerous to ...
الصفحة 62
... occafion to wait on an honorable gen- tleman 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 ...
... occafion to wait on an honorable gen- tleman 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 ...
الصفحة 79
... occafion to fpeak of either in future , I shall call them overseers and book - keepers . Overseers all over Jamaica are generally Euro- peans , and get falaries from 100 to £ 300 fter- ling per annum , and are accommodated with ...
... occafion to fpeak of either in future , I shall call them overseers and book - keepers . Overseers all over Jamaica are generally Euro- peans , and get falaries from 100 to £ 300 fter- ling per annum , and are accommodated with ...
الصفحة 133
... The most confiderable number of free blacks are king Cudjoe's subjects : I once had occafion to cross the island , and called at that sable mo- narch's ; narch's ; he lives in a snug little house , IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 133.
... The most confiderable number of free blacks are king Cudjoe's subjects : I once had occafion to cross the island , and called at that sable mo- narch's ; narch's ; he lives in a snug little house , IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 133.
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