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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... whilft he is taking them ; I was informed by medical gentlemen of judgment and veracity , that half the cure depends upon this . Buboes , shankers , & c . & c . are the effects of ill - cured venerials ; should you at any time be ...
... whilft he is taking them ; I was informed by medical gentlemen of judgment and veracity , that half the cure depends upon this . Buboes , shankers , & c . & c . are the effects of ill - cured venerials ; should you at any time be ...
الصفحة 72
... whilft the mortgager reflects with horror on his extravagance and folly . It would be vastly better for a planter , when distressed to answer any preffing demands which may be against him , to fell his estate at once , or a part of it ...
... whilft the mortgager reflects with horror on his extravagance and folly . It would be vastly better for a planter , when distressed to answer any preffing demands which may be against him , to fell his estate at once , or a part of it ...
الصفحة 83
... whilft the weak and meagre only cultivated the plantation ; besides , he had not penetration fufficient to know when flaves were stout and healthy , fick or weak- ly , poor or hungry , or whether they worked cheerfully , or lottered ...
... whilft the weak and meagre only cultivated the plantation ; besides , he had not penetration fufficient to know when flaves were stout and healthy , fick or weak- ly , poor or hungry , or whether they worked cheerfully , or lottered ...
الصفحة 90
... with health and gain , Whilft they trudge thro ' mud and rain ; Expos'd to toil , disease and pain , Whilst I'm a cowskin hero ! * Alluding to the attorney . My My driver I've made crazy , The flaves under due 90 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... with health and gain , Whilft they trudge thro ' mud and rain ; Expos'd to toil , disease and pain , Whilst I'm a cowskin hero ! * Alluding to the attorney . My My driver I've made crazy , The flaves under due 90 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 118
... whilft the mocking birds were warbling their melodious strains , miss Louisa and miss Laura fung most charming catches , which inspired me with ideas different from what I before entertained ; on our return through a plantain walk , we ...
... whilft the mocking birds were warbling their melodious strains , miss Louisa and miss Laura fung most charming catches , which inspired me with ideas different from what I before entertained ; on our return through a plantain walk , we ...
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