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 46
attorney for suffering it , wood for fire and other necessaries are not prepared in
time : there are many preparations to be made for crop ; the coppers and stills
may want repairing or setting ; the mill and gutters , pumps and vats , or cisterns ...
attorney for suffering it , wood for fire and other necessaries are not prepared in
time : there are many preparations to be made for crop ; the coppers and stills
may want repairing or setting ; the mill and gutters , pumps and vats , or cisterns ...
الصفحة 51
The greatest care and attention of the manager and overseers during crop are
requisite ; for the whole produce of the year , which cost such vast labour and
expence , go through hands in three or four months ; and good or bad
management ...
The greatest care and attention of the manager and overseers during crop are
requisite ; for the whole produce of the year , which cost such vast labour and
expence , go through hands in three or four months ; and good or bad
management ...
الصفحة 52
Taking off crop is a very laborious piece of business , and yet it is very amazing
how cheerfully the negroes begin and go through with it ; how , instead of getting
weak and meagre , like the cattle and mules , they like rats fatten upon the canes
...
Taking off crop is a very laborious piece of business , and yet it is very amazing
how cheerfully the negroes begin and go through with it ; how , instead of getting
weak and meagre , like the cattle and mules , they like rats fatten upon the canes
...
الصفحة 75
... industrious young As to what you mention respecting the crops , you will
please to observe , that when Mr. M'Donald ... I hope we shall make a better crop
next year ; you will please to observe ; that the long continuance of the draught
last ...
... industrious young As to what you mention respecting the crops , you will
please to observe , that when Mr. M'Donald ... I hope we shall make a better crop
next year ; you will please to observe ; that the long continuance of the draught
last ...
الصفحة 76
and the heavy and untimely rains this year , affected the crop very much ; as to
what you say respecting your black people , though several of them have died
lately , it was not for want of attention ; for Clyfterpipe , who is Doctor Bolus's
brother ...
and the heavy and untimely rains this year , affected the crop very much ; as to
what you say respecting your black people , though several of them have died
lately , it was not for want of attention ; for Clyfterpipe , who is Doctor Bolus's
brother ...
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