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 40
The woods yield choice timber , fic for almost all uses ; such as locust , maftic ,
bull - tree , dogwood , brasilitto , mahogany and cedars , as huge and lofty as the
cedars of Lebanon ; also lignumvitæ , which yields that valuable medicine ...
The woods yield choice timber , fic for almost all uses ; such as locust , maftic ,
bull - tree , dogwood , brasilitto , mahogany and cedars , as huge and lofty as the
cedars of Lebanon ; also lignumvitæ , which yields that valuable medicine ...
الصفحة 41
The woods afford shelter for vast numbers of wild cattle and swine , and some
deer : I have somethes shot a fat cattle of this kind , and frequently wild hogs ; the
latter are excellent when barbacued maroon fashion . The country is exceeding ...
The woods afford shelter for vast numbers of wild cattle and swine , and some
deer : I have somethes shot a fat cattle of this kind , and frequently wild hogs ; the
latter are excellent when barbacued maroon fashion . The country is exceeding ...
الصفحة 46
attorney for suffering it , wood for fire and other necessaries are not prepared in
time : there are many preparations to be made for crop ; the coppers and stills
may want repairing or setting ; the mill and gutters , pumps and vats , or cisterns ...
attorney for suffering it , wood for fire and other necessaries are not prepared in
time : there are many preparations to be made for crop ; the coppers and stills
may want repairing or setting ; the mill and gutters , pumps and vats , or cisterns ...
الصفحة 115
At last the day appointed came ; the morn was woeful to the sheep and swine ! it
was a woeful morn for the poultry , young pigeons , and young rabbits ! and a sad
and lamentable morn for the inhabitants of the woods and waters ! ' ere it was ...
At last the day appointed came ; the morn was woeful to the sheep and swine ! it
was a woeful morn for the poultry , young pigeons , and young rabbits ! and a sad
and lamentable morn for the inhabitants of the woods and waters ! ' ere it was ...
الصفحة 135
업 le ! didly told me , that when the island was taken by the Spaniards , his
ancestors would not surrender themselves , but resolved to be free , or perish ;
and held out so long in the woods , that having killed several of the English , and
tired ...
업 le ! didly told me , that when the island was taken by the Spaniards , his
ancestors would not surrender themselves , but resolved to be free , or perish ;
and held out so long in the woods , that having killed several of the English , and
tired ...
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