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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الصفحة 13
The chief produce for exportation is wine of an excellent favour and quality ; instead of turning four by heat like other wines , this improves vastly in warm climates the older it becomes , and is an excellent medicine , I am informed ...
The chief produce for exportation is wine of an excellent favour and quality ; instead of turning four by heat like other wines , this improves vastly in warm climates the older it becomes , and is an excellent medicine , I am informed ...
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legs , through the venom of the musquittoes , to turn to mortifications , whereby they lost their lives . Each night when I lay on my bed , My wearied limbs to rest , Their humming songs kept me in dread , And fore my mind oppress'd .
legs , through the venom of the musquittoes , to turn to mortifications , whereby they lost their lives . Each night when I lay on my bed , My wearied limbs to rest , Their humming songs kept me in dread , And fore my mind oppress'd .
الصفحة 46
I say , when all these , and many other matters , are not considered of and prepared in time , if the canes are ripe , and dry weather ensues , they will turn red , or ( as they say ) get burnt ; after which , though they must be cut to ...
I say , when all these , and many other matters , are not considered of and prepared in time , if the canes are ripe , and dry weather ensues , they will turn red , or ( as they say ) get burnt ; after which , though they must be cut to ...
الصفحة 47
... and having fix or eight long shafts or arms mərticed therein , which extend to the circumference of the roof ; the cattle or mules being chained to those arms , are drove round by little boys or girls , which of course turns the ...
... and having fix or eight long shafts or arms mərticed therein , which extend to the circumference of the roof ; the cattle or mules being chained to those arms , are drove round by little boys or girls , which of course turns the ...
الصفحة 51
... four : when it was my weekly turn to go to bed nightly at eight or nine o'clock , P. M. I was roused with the dreadful alarm of “ spell's called massa , ” at high twelve , and obliged to fit up until eight or nine o'clock next night ...
... four : when it was my weekly turn to go to bed nightly at eight or nine o'clock , P. M. I was roused with the dreadful alarm of “ spell's called massa , ” at high twelve , and obliged to fit up until eight or nine o'clock next night ...
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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