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 EditionJ. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 - 192 من الصفحات |
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... fame uniform of their custom - houfe officers ; their characteristic is , that they are poor , proud , fuperftitious and treacherous ; the finest of their women , fome hundreds of them , are cooped up in convents ; what pity that fine ...
... fame uniform of their custom - houfe officers ; their characteristic is , that they are poor , proud , fuperftitious and treacherous ; the finest of their women , fome hundreds of them , are cooped up in convents ; what pity that fine ...
الصفحة 28
... fame fort of matter through the veffels to the parts it corrodes ; it is fomewhat odd to me , that men are more liable than women to contract the difeafe , confidering the difference of the organs of generation in both ; the first ...
... fame fort of matter through the veffels to the parts it corrodes ; it is fomewhat odd to me , that men are more liable than women to contract the difeafe , confidering the difference of the organs of generation in both ; the first ...
الصفحة 30
... fame ( the day you take a purge excepted ) ; at night repeat the bolus , and the third day repeat the purge ; if in fix days you do not find the running and inflammation 1 1 I I + mation much abated , repeat the bolufes and electuary ...
... fame ( the day you take a purge excepted ) ; at night repeat the bolus , and the third day repeat the purge ; if in fix days you do not find the running and inflammation 1 1 I I + mation much abated , repeat the bolufes and electuary ...
الصفحة 34
J. B. Moreton. MANNERS AND CUSTOMS Kingston is about a mile long and the fame in breadth , containing about two thousand houfes , befides negro huts ; the number of white inhabitants are about three thoufand , free people of colour ...
J. B. Moreton. MANNERS AND CUSTOMS Kingston is about a mile long and the fame in breadth , containing about two thousand houfes , befides negro huts ; the number of white inhabitants are about three thoufand , free people of colour ...
الصفحة 35
... fame manner , so that a franger or drunken man , of a dark night , unless he walks in the middle of the street , is liable to get his bones broke ; the ftreets are fandy , and when it blows ftrong the duft rarifies fo abundantly , that ...
... fame manner , so that a franger or drunken man , of a dark night , unless he walks in the middle of the street , is liable to get his bones broke ; the ftreets are fandy , and when it blows ftrong the duft rarifies fo abundantly , that ...
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