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 15
... amongst them , let it be done after fome fevere toil , or bad weather , having previously got the confent of the captain , or mate , least they get drunk and neglect their duty , and you should be blamed . I love failors ; -they are ...
... amongst them , let it be done after fome fevere toil , or bad weather , having previously got the confent of the captain , or mate , least they get drunk and neglect their duty , and you should be blamed . I love failors ; -they are ...
الصفحة 18
... to pronounce the names of the few medicines they ufe , commit murder and deftruction amongst the human race of every denomination ; real phyficians are rarely to be met with , indeed ; I never heard of any there , fave only Meffrs .
... to pronounce the names of the few medicines they ufe , commit murder and deftruction amongst the human race of every denomination ; real phyficians are rarely to be met with , indeed ; I never heard of any there , fave only Meffrs .
الصفحة 33
There are about forty towns and villages , amongst which none are worthy of note but Kingston , Saint Jago de la Vega , vulgarly called Spanish Town , Port Royal , and Montego Bay , the reft hardly deferve the name of villages ...
There are about forty towns and villages , amongst which none are worthy of note but Kingston , Saint Jago de la Vega , vulgarly called Spanish Town , Port Royal , and Montego Bay , the reft hardly deferve the name of villages ...
الصفحة 39
The 17th of June , 1692 , Port - Royal was entirely fwallowed 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 removed more than a mile ...
The 17th of June , 1692 , Port - Royal was entirely fwallowed 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 removed more than a mile ...
الصفحة 63
There are about seventy attornies at law , and twenty barristers in the island ; amongst the latter , the oratorial Mr. Lewis and facetious Mr. Brown have diftinguished themfelves ; tho ' Mr. Brown is not fo fluent in fpeech as Mr.
There are about seventy attornies at law , and twenty barristers in the island ; amongst the latter , the oratorial Mr. Lewis and facetious Mr. Brown have diftinguished themfelves ; tho ' Mr. Brown is not fo fluent in fpeech as Mr.
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