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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الصفحة vi
... Port - Royal Pens , or Farms Parrots , Parroquets , & c . Pork , excellent quality Plantations Pens for Cattle Quacks 16 , 37 57 40 41 42 43 21 23 Quadroon Natives Rains Rum Rivers Rattoon Canes Sca - fickness , and fea - voyage Sailors ...
... Port - Royal Pens , or Farms Parrots , Parroquets , & c . Pork , excellent quality Plantations Pens for Cattle Quacks 16 , 37 57 40 41 42 43 21 23 Quadroon Natives Rains Rum Rivers Rattoon Canes Sca - fickness , and fea - voyage Sailors ...
الصفحة 16
... Port - Royal , the negroes in fmall canoes , or bom - boats , coming along fide the ship with coffee , fruit , and vegetables , will attract your attention ; but when you get up to Kingf- town , if you had five more fenfes , they would ...
... Port - Royal , the negroes in fmall canoes , or bom - boats , coming along fide the ship with coffee , fruit , and vegetables , will attract your attention ; but when you get up to Kingf- town , if you had five more fenfes , they would ...
الصفحة 33
... Port Royal , and Montego Bay , the reft hardly deferve the name of villages , only fmall places of fhipping around the island . Kingston Kingston is about a mile long and the fame in OF THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 33.
... Port Royal , and Montego Bay , the reft hardly deferve the name of villages , only fmall places of fhipping around the island . Kingston Kingston is about a mile long and the fame in OF THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 33.
الصفحة 37
... Port Royal was once the greatest place of trade in the West Indies ; but by repeated cala- mities it is reduced to about two hundred houses ; it contains the royal navy dock yard for heaving down fhips ; is ten miles from Spanish Town ...
... Port Royal was once the greatest place of trade in the West Indies ; but by repeated cala- mities it is reduced to about two hundred houses ; it contains the royal navy dock yard for heaving down fhips ; is ten miles from Spanish Town ...
الصفحة 39
... Port - Royal was entirely swallowed up ; two thousand lives were loft , and fhips now fail over the old town , and anchor amongst the ruins of the houses ; the fame day a plantation was re- moved more than a mile from its former ...
... Port - Royal was entirely swallowed up ; two thousand lives were loft , and fhips now fail over the old town , and anchor amongst the ruins of the houses ; the fame day a plantation was re- moved more than a mile from its former ...
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