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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... or pork ; in short , as soon as they had got a piece of beef and a few glasses of port , they departed well pleased ; in like manner they paid their devoirs to each ship ( the feet consisted of one hundred and eighty sail ) .
... or pork ; in short , as soon as they had got a piece of beef and a few glasses of port , they departed well pleased ; in like manner they paid their devoirs to each ship ( the feet consisted of one hundred and eighty sail ) .
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... therefore strenuously recommend it to you to avoid heats and colds , rains , heavy fogs , mists , or dews , as niuch as possible , as well as getting your feet wet , for they are the forerunners of almost innumerable diseases .
... therefore strenuously recommend it to you to avoid heats and colds , rains , heavy fogs , mists , or dews , as niuch as possible , as well as getting your feet wet , for they are the forerunners of almost innumerable diseases .
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When you chance to get wet , which you often will , be careful to change your apparel as soon as possible , for wet clothes remaining on till they dry will restrain perspiration , and may bring on an ague ; when yoor feet get wet ...
When you chance to get wet , which you often will , be careful to change your apparel as soon as possible , for wet clothes remaining on till they dry will restrain perspiration , and may bring on an ague ; when yoor feet get wet ...
الصفحة 38
... and the whole county of Cornwall , were almoft destroyed by an hurricane and heavy rains , Mina rose about thirty feet high in some places , this I was convinced of after the food abated , by observing part of a negro huc and other ...
... and the whole county of Cornwall , were almoft destroyed by an hurricane and heavy rains , Mina rose about thirty feet high in some places , this I was convinced of after the food abated , by observing part of a negro huc and other ...
الصفحة 39
I myself once beheld them trembling all round me , and their rocky stupendous tops precipitating their rugged cliffs ; I saw the sea rise several feet beyond its usual bounds , and swallow up valuable stores and wharfs ; nay , it has ...
I myself once beheld them trembling all round me , and their rocky stupendous tops precipitating their rugged cliffs ; I saw the sea rise several feet beyond its usual bounds , and swallow up valuable stores and wharfs ; nay , it has ...
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