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 linguist ) that they were customhouse officers , and that we should have waited till they boarded us , and got their fees , which was a ...
c . boarded us ; we were informed by the fat man , ( who was their linguist ) that they were customhouse officers , and that we should have waited till they boarded us , and got their fees , which was a ...
الصفحة 13
to and from their boats ; several lusty yellow fellows stand naked from morning ' till night for that purpose , and are well paid by the different passengers . The chief produce for exportation is wine of an excellent favour and quality ...
to and from their boats ; several lusty yellow fellows stand naked from morning ' till night for that purpose , and are well paid by the different passengers . The chief produce for exportation is wine of an excellent favour and quality ...
الصفحة 15
They will not only shave them with a rusty iron hoop , but lather them with pitch and tar , and duck them in the sea , till they had wished that they never : were born ; fo that it will be necessary to lay in five or six 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 sea , till they had wished that they never : were born ; fo that it will be necessary to lay in five or six 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 stockings till they get to the blood ; the consequence 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 stockings till they get to the blood ; the consequence is , that whereever they touch , the parts fefter , and are ...
الصفحة 17
... And shook his facred wand , O'er all the ille , and in the air , And bless'd both air and land . ' Till not a pois'nous spiteful thing Above the earth had rang'd , And vile musquittoes lost its sting , And into midges chang'd .
... And shook his facred wand , O'er all the ille , and in the air , And bless'd both air and land . ' Till not a pois'nous spiteful thing Above the earth had rang'd , And vile musquittoes lost its sting , And into midges chang'd .
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almoſt alſo amongſt appear attend attorney beſt better blood book-keepers buſineſs called canes carry cattle cent commonly corn Creole cure dear drink eight eſtate favour feet field firſt five fond four frequently friends gentlemen give ground hands heart hero himſelf horſes houſe human hundred ignorant iſland Jamaica juſtice keep kind known ladies laſt leaſt liquor live manager manner maſter means merchants mind miſs Mongrel morning moſt muſt nature Naves negroes never night obliged obſerve once overſeers pain particularly perſon plantation planting pleaſe poor ſame ſay ſee ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall ſome ſtock ſuch ſugar taken themſelves theſe thing thoſe thouſand till tion town turn uſe waſhed Weſt Indies whole wine wiſh women woods young yourſelf