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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... and are troubled with such extreme itching , that if the hands were not tied , the wounded person could not avoid scratching ; and those who don't take care of their nails , foon have their legs inflamed with disagreeable fores : I ...
... and are troubled with such extreme itching , that if the hands were not tied , the wounded person could not avoid scratching ; and those who don't take care of their nails , foon have their legs inflamed with disagreeable fores : I ...
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... when a person is confined to his bed , some careful , discreet , black woman , should be appointed to attend him all day and night . Therefore let me request , that when you find yourself indisposed as I have mentioned , you will ...
... when a person is confined to his bed , some careful , discreet , black woman , should be appointed to attend him all day and night . Therefore let me request , that when you find yourself indisposed as I have mentioned , you will ...
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... get his bones broke ; the streets are fandy , and when it blows strong the dust rarifies so abundantly , that a person passing cannot see the houses nor parsengers , nor can he , but with much difficulty , preserve his eye - light .
... get his bones broke ; the streets are fandy , and when it blows strong the dust rarifies so abundantly , that a person passing cannot see the houses nor parsengers , nor can he , but with much difficulty , preserve his eye - light .
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... if hired by one person , is a dollar , but if there are many passengers only two bitts for each . Montego Bay , next to Kingston for trade , is about one hundred and twenty five miles diftant from Kingston , and contains about six ...
... if hired by one person , is a dollar , but if there are many passengers only two bitts for each . Montego Bay , next to Kingston for trade , is about one hundred and twenty five miles diftant from Kingston , and contains about six ...
الصفحة 40
... are rank poison ; so that if even the rain which remained any time on the leaves , falls on a person's skin , the parts blister immediately , and if a drop chance to get into the eye , ic dettroys the fight for ever .
... are rank poison ; so that if even the rain which remained any time on the leaves , falls on a person's skin , the parts blister immediately , and if a drop chance to get into the eye , ic dettroys the fight for ever .
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