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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S I understand you intend to go shortly to Jamaica , and I presume an entire stranger to the nature of that climate and the people thereof , I think it a duty incumbent on me to give you some instructions and advice respecting both ...
S I understand you intend to go shortly to Jamaica , and I presume an entire stranger to the nature of that climate and the people thereof , I think it a duty incumbent on me to give you some instructions and advice respecting both ...
الصفحة 11
The curling waves , now glittering with white , Again , the colour of the fable night ; On one huge surge a purple hue I've seen , And on another an undulating green ; some of a yellow , some a crimson dye , And fome the colour of the ...
The curling waves , now glittering with white , Again , the colour of the fable night ; On one huge surge a purple hue I've seen , And on another an undulating green ; some of a yellow , some a crimson dye , And fome the colour of the ...
الصفحة 12
We then with difficulty got alhore , the swell or furf at the beech being always fo Grong , that small boats would be dashed to pieces if great care was not taken to keep them a Boat some distance from the shore : people passing and ...
We then with difficulty got alhore , the swell or furf at the beech being always fo Grong , that small boats would be dashed to pieces if great care was not taken to keep them a Boat some distance from the shore : people passing and ...
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... the natives are Portuguese , and dress in the same uniform of their custom - house officers ; their characteristic is , that they are poor , proud , superftitious and treacherous ; the finest of their wonnen , some hundreds of them ...
... the natives are Portuguese , and dress in the same uniform of their custom - house officers ; their characteristic is , that they are poor , proud , superftitious and treacherous ; the finest of their wonnen , some hundreds of them ...
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... let it be done after some Tevere toil , or bad weather , having previously got the consent of the captain , or mate , least they get drunk and neglect their duty , and you should be blamed . I love failors ; -they are generous ...
... let it be done after some Tevere toil , or bad weather , having previously got the consent of the captain , or mate , least they get drunk and neglect their duty , and you should be blamed . I love failors ; -they are generous ...
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