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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... piece of beef and a few glaffes of port , they departed well pleased ; in like manner they paid their devoirs to each ... pieces if great care was not taken to keep them a float fome diftance from the fhore people paffing and repaffing ...
... piece of beef and a few glaffes of port , they departed well pleased ; in like manner they paid their devoirs to each ... pieces if great care was not taken to keep them a float fome diftance from the fhore people paffing and repaffing ...
الصفحة 42
... piece of ground intended for canes is first cleared of all fhrubbery , and lined , if level , from one end to the other , as ftrait as poffible with a line and fquare : the line is 1 is marked at every feven or eight feet with a 42 ...
... piece of ground intended for canes is first cleared of all fhrubbery , and lined , if level , from one end to the other , as ftrait as poffible with a line and fquare : the line is 1 is marked at every feven or eight feet with a 42 ...
الصفحة 43
... piece ( two smart handy boys or girls are appoint- ed for liners , and two more to pick up the pegs as faft as the holes are dug ) ; when part of the field is thus lined , the negroes fet in between the pegs ( each pair having an equal ...
... piece ( two smart handy boys or girls are appoint- ed for liners , and two more to pick up the pegs as faft as the holes are dug ) ; when part of the field is thus lined , the negroes fet in between the pegs ( each pair having an equal ...
الصفحة 44
... piece intended for holing , and a number of negroes , cattle , and wanes , employed for fe- veral weeks , carrying cane tops , grafs and vines to them . The cattle and mules are fhifted nightly from penn to penn , till their dung and ...
... piece intended for holing , and a number of negroes , cattle , and wanes , employed for fe- veral weeks , carrying cane tops , grafs and vines to them . The cattle and mules are fhifted nightly from penn to penn , till their dung and ...
الصفحة 47
... pieces of metal about the fize and shape of whipping - tops , called capoufes ; the main or middle roller , being filled with a long bull - tree , which extends to the utmoft centre of the roof , where it is steadied by an iron axle ...
... pieces of metal about the fize and shape of whipping - tops , called capoufes ; the main or middle roller , being filled with a long bull - tree , which extends to the utmoft centre of the roof , where it is steadied by an iron axle ...
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