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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c . boarded us ; we were informed by the fat man , ( who was their linguift ) that they were cuftomhouse officers , and that we should have waited till they boarded us , and got their fees , which was a few ...
c . boarded us ; we were informed by the fat man , ( who was their linguift ) that they were cuftomhouse officers , and that we should have waited till they boarded us , and got their fees , which was a few ...
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to and from their boats ; feveral lufty yellow fellows ftand naked from morning ' till night for that purpose , and are well paid by the different paffengers . The chief produce for exportation is wine of an excellent flavour and ...
to and from their boats ; feveral lufty yellow fellows ftand naked from morning ' till night for that purpose , and are well paid by the different paffengers . The chief produce for exportation is wine of an excellent flavour and ...
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They will not only shave them with a rusty iron hoop , but lather them with pitch and tar , and duck them in the fea , till they had wifhed that they never were born ; fo that it will be neceffary to lay in five or fix gallons of rum ...
They will not only shave them with a rusty iron hoop , but lather them with pitch and tar , and duck them in the fea , till they had wifhed that they never were born ; fo that it will be neceffary to lay in five or fix gallons of rum ...
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... buzzing in your ears their disagreeable tunes : they have long tubes or ftings , which they pierce through clothes or ftockings till they get to the blood ; the confequence is , that whereever they touch , the parts fefter , and are ...
... buzzing in your ears their disagreeable tunes : they have long tubes or ftings , which they pierce through clothes or ftockings till they get to the blood ; the confequence is , that whereever they touch , the parts fefter , and are ...
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... And fhook his facred wand , O'er all the ifle , and in the air , And blefs'd both air and land . ' Till not a pois'nous fpiteful thing Above the earth had rang'd , And vile mufquittoes loft its fting , And into midges chang'd .
... And fhook his facred wand , O'er all the ifle , and in the air , And blefs'd both air and land . ' Till not a pois'nous fpiteful thing Above the earth had rang'd , And vile mufquittoes loft its fting , And into midges chang'd .
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