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 41
The trees are amazing high , appearing to touch the cloud.cape towers , and are always vocal with the music of variety of birds , particularly parrots , paroquets , wood - peckers , and doves of various kinds : the mournful cooing of ...
The trees are amazing high , appearing to touch the cloud.cape towers , and are always vocal with the music of variety of birds , particularly parrots , paroquets , wood - peckers , and doves of various kinds : the mournful cooing of ...
الصفحة 45
... and observing the grain : if it appears soft and moist , like a potatoe or turnip , it is too green : but if dry , and white parcicles appear , you may be sure that the cane is ripe ; any man , who is a planter , will know when they ...
... and observing the grain : if it appears soft and moist , like a potatoe or turnip , it is too green : but if dry , and white parcicles appear , you may be sure that the cane is ripe ; any man , who is a planter , will know when they ...
الصفحة 49
... or five years : He may attempt it , -but how insignificant and aukward must a man appear , who attempts or undertakes a business he knows nothing about ; he may may think , and say , “ My overseers and IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS .
... or five years : He may attempt it , -but how insignificant and aukward must a man appear , who attempts or undertakes a business he knows nothing about ; he may may think , and say , “ My overseers and IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS .
الصفحة 89
... gentlemen to have families on their estates ; a woman requires attendance , and may interfere with the management , so as to influence her husband in the government of the rod ; besides , a lovely amiable white partner would appear ...
... gentlemen to have families on their estates ; a woman requires attendance , and may interfere with the management , so as to influence her husband in the government of the rod ; besides , a lovely amiable white partner would appear ...
الصفحة 92
... his own modest behaviour and appear . ance will recommend him in the country , for overseers are glad to get green - horns , because they can impose hardships on them , and make them fubferviant to their interests .
... his own modest behaviour and appear . ance will recommend him in the country , for overseers are glad to get green - horns , because they can impose hardships on them , and make them fubferviant to their interests .
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