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
I love failors ; -they are generous , rough , uncouth beings ; do not treat them with
contempt or disrespect ; though ragged , poor and dirty , they may be good flesh
and blood ; yet do not make free with them , that is , to be chattering to them , or ...
I love failors ; -they are generous , rough , uncouth beings ; do not treat them with
contempt or disrespect ; though ragged , poor and dirty , they may be good flesh
and blood ; yet do not make free with them , that is , to be chattering to them , or ...
الصفحة 145
... to the failors , who chastise those who are sick or lazy . Several of those poor
creatures , heart broken at their fate , die daily ; and least any report should
circulate of the cargo's being sickly , to hurt the sale , the dead bodies are
concealed in ...
... to the failors , who chastise those who are sick or lazy . Several of those poor
creatures , heart broken at their fate , die daily ; and least any report should
circulate of the cargo's being sickly , to hurt the sale , the dead bodies are
concealed in ...
الصفحة 163
as heavy to be carried by men ; so that they sometimes take a whole night to
carry and inter a corpse , straining themselves , seemingly , much as a few failors
at heaving up a best bower . One thing more : I particularly recommend you to be
...
as heavy to be carried by men ; so that they sometimes take a whole night to
carry and inter a corpse , straining themselves , seemingly , much as a few failors
at heaving up a best bower . One thing more : I particularly recommend you to be
...
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