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 34
... containing about two thousand houses , besides negro huts ; the number of white inhabitants are about three thousand , free people of colour twelve hundred , and eight thousand Naves ; the harbour is very commodious for a thousand ...
... containing about two thousand houses , besides negro huts ; the number of white inhabitants are about three thousand , free people of colour twelve hundred , and eight thousand Naves ; the harbour is very commodious for a thousand ...
الصفحة 38
... there are about cwo thousand and twenty pens or farms , and other settlements , two hundred fifty nine thousand Naves , eighty thousand one hundred cattle , and twenty five thousand white people on the island .
... there are about cwo thousand and twenty pens or farms , and other settlements , two hundred fifty nine thousand Naves , eighty thousand one hundred cattle , and twenty five thousand white people on the island .
الصفحة 50
... he should observe the dispositions of the Naves , their abilities and strength ; and in crop time stand at the coppers , and pack whole hours daily and nightly , and take his monthly spell in the distill - house ; but the generality ...
... he should observe the dispositions of the Naves , their abilities and strength ; and in crop time stand at the coppers , and pack whole hours daily and nightly , and take his monthly spell in the distill - house ; but the generality ...
الصفحة 57
c . will cost about 8,000 ) ; one hundred and forty Naves will cost about 60ool . more ; and if there is not the convenience of water to the mill , and the plantation is far from the shipping - place , there will be forty good mules ...
c . will cost about 8,000 ) ; one hundred and forty Naves will cost about 60ool . more ; and if there is not the convenience of water to the mill , and the plantation is far from the shipping - place , there will be forty good mules ...
الصفحة 62
... constant look out , the gates are always locked , so that no stranger or other person if not well known will get admitcance ; the produce is all shipped on Sundays ; the Naves , and other stock , are only to be met with on Sundays .
... constant look out , the gates are always locked , so that no stranger or other person if not well known will get admitcance ; the produce is all shipped on Sundays ; the Naves , and other stock , are only to be met with on Sundays .
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