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 9
A А MY DEAR FRIEND ! S I understand you intend to go shortly to Jamaica , and I presume an entire stranger to the nature of that climate and the people thereof , I think it a duty incumbent on me to give you some instructions and advice ...
A А MY DEAR FRIEND ! S I understand you intend to go shortly to Jamaica , and I presume an entire stranger to the nature of that climate and the people thereof , I think it a duty incumbent on me to give you some instructions and advice ...
الصفحة 40
Though I am naturally fond of misth and society , yet I often like retirement , and have ofien enjoyed the greatest rapture of mind when wrapped 1 1 wrapped in dear delightful solitude , amidst the rocky grottos 40 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
Though I am naturally fond of misth and society , yet I often like retirement , and have ofien enjoyed the greatest rapture of mind when wrapped 1 1 wrapped in dear delightful solitude , amidst the rocky grottos 40 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 41
wrapped in dear delightful solitude , amidst the rocky grottos of the mountains , I felt a pleasing satisfaction , traversing with a gun the lonely and unfrequented shades of the woods . These deep solitudes and awful cells , “ Where ...
wrapped in dear delightful solitude , amidst the rocky grottos of the mountains , I felt a pleasing satisfaction , traversing with a gun the lonely and unfrequented shades of the woods . These deep solitudes and awful cells , “ Where ...
الصفحة 67
... I translated it as follows : Dear Mofes , this chance is most pleasing to me , To send the contents of my mind unto thee ; On board of the Neptune , a paffage I took , With keen cunning notions of having good - look .
... I translated it as follows : Dear Mofes , this chance is most pleasing to me , To send the contents of my mind unto thee ; On board of the Neptune , a paffage I took , With keen cunning notions of having good - look .
الصفحة 74
The following is the nature of a letter from a needy attorney to the proprietor in London . Spanish - Town , 20th June 1781 . Dear Sir , I was favoured with yours of the 6th of April , and offerse the contents .
The following is the nature of a letter from a needy attorney to the proprietor in London . Spanish - Town , 20th June 1781 . Dear Sir , I was favoured with yours of the 6th of April , and offerse the contents .
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almoſt alſo amongſt appear attend attorney beſt better blood book-keepers buſineſs called canes carry cattle cent commonly corn Creole cure dear drink eight eſtate favour feet field firſt five fond four frequently friends gentlemen give ground hands heart hero himſelf horſes houſe human hundred ignorant iſland Jamaica juſtice keep kind known ladies laſt leaſt liquor live manager manner maſter means merchants mind miſs Mongrel morning moſt muſt nature Naves negroes never night obliged obſerve once overſeers pain particularly perſon plantation planting pleaſe poor ſame ſay ſee ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall ſome ſtock ſuch ſugar taken themſelves theſe thing thoſe thouſand till tion town turn uſe waſhed Weſt Indies whole wine wiſh women woods young yourſelf