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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... the inhabitants , like the Egyptians at the overflowing of the Nile , with their flaves and live ftock , to take shelter in the mountains . ! 1 H mountains until the waters abate ; these heavy rains are 38 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... the inhabitants , like the Egyptians at the overflowing of the Nile , with their flaves and live ftock , to take shelter in the mountains . ! 1 H mountains until the waters abate ; these heavy rains are 38 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 39
... These awful and tremendous difpenfations of Providence frequently happen , not only in Jamaica , but all over the West Indies ; but when hurricanes are attended with earthquakes , the vallies shake , and the mountains nod . I myself ...
... These awful and tremendous difpenfations of Providence frequently happen , not only in Jamaica , but all over the West Indies ; but when hurricanes are attended with earthquakes , the vallies shake , and the mountains nod . I myself ...
الصفحة 41
... These deep folitudes and awful cells , " Where heav'nly penfive contemplation dwells , " And ever - mufing melancholy reigns . " The trees are amazing high , appearing to touch the cloud - capt towers , and are always vocal with the ...
... These deep folitudes and awful cells , " Where heav'nly penfive contemplation dwells , " And ever - mufing melancholy reigns . " The trees are amazing high , appearing to touch the cloud - capt towers , and are always vocal with the ...
الصفحة 47
... these rollers being filled with hard wood , and coged all round , and fupported on the mill bed , about eighteen inches from the ground , on fmall pieces of metal about the fize and shape of whipping - tops , called capoufes ; the main ...
... these rollers being filled with hard wood , and coged all round , and fupported on the mill bed , about eighteen inches from the ground , on fmall pieces of metal about the fize and shape of whipping - tops , called capoufes ; the main ...
الصفحة 65
... These Chrift - killing dogs exert every base means to impofe upon Chriftians ; even their children are trained to villainy , keep pedling stands in the ftreets from morning until night , and are keen , cunning little fharpers . Ever ...
... These Chrift - killing dogs exert every base means to impofe upon Chriftians ; even their children are trained to villainy , keep pedling stands in the ftreets from morning until night , and are keen , cunning little fharpers . Ever ...
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