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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... vast numbers of wild cattle and swine , and some deer : I have sometines shot a fat cattle of this kind , and frequently wild hogs ; the latter are excellent when barbacued maroon fashion . The country is exceeding fer- tile , and ...
... vast numbers of wild cattle and swine , and some deer : I have sometines shot a fat cattle of this kind , and frequently wild hogs ; the latter are excellent when barbacued maroon fashion . The country is exceeding fer- tile , and ...
الصفحة 44
... vast labour and pains ; there must be cattle penns contiguous to every 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 ...
... vast labour and pains ; there must be cattle penns contiguous to every 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 ...
الصفحة 51
... vast labour and expence , go through hands in threeorfour months ; and good or bad management then may affect the proprietor very much . When I was one of the humble fraternity of book - keepers , or , as they are called in the Wind ...
... vast labour and expence , go through hands in threeorfour months ; and good or bad management then may affect the proprietor very much . When I was one of the humble fraternity of book - keepers , or , as they are called in the Wind ...
الصفحة 56
... will improve rum ; also tea , and temper lime , about two quarts of the latter to each puncheon ; burnt Muscovado fugar will colour it . Here Here let me observe the vast expence which attends establishing 56 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... will improve rum ; also tea , and temper lime , about two quarts of the latter to each puncheon ; burnt Muscovado fugar will colour it . Here Here let me observe the vast expence which attends establishing 56 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 57
J. B. Moreton. Here let me observe the vast expence which attends establishing a sugar plantation , supposing keeping only one hundred acres constantly under canes . The mill , boiling , and curing - houses , and distill - house , with ...
J. B. Moreton. Here let me observe the vast expence which attends establishing a sugar plantation , supposing keeping only one hundred acres constantly under canes . The mill , boiling , and curing - houses , and distill - house , with ...
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