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 12
... great care was not taken to keep them a float fome diftance from the fhore : people paffing and repaffing , are obliged to be carried on men's fhoulders to 1 to and from their boats ; feveral lufty yellow fellows 12 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... great care was not taken to keep them a float fome diftance from the fhore : people paffing and repaffing , are obliged to be carried on men's fhoulders to 1 to and from their boats ; feveral lufty yellow fellows 12 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 13
to and from their boats ; feveral lufty yellow fellows ftand naked from morning ' till night for that purpose , and are well paid by the different paffengers . The chief produce for exportation is wine of an excellent flavour and ...
to and from their boats ; feveral lufty yellow fellows ftand naked from morning ' till night for that purpose , and are well paid by the different paffengers . The chief produce for exportation is wine of an excellent flavour and ...
الصفحة 14
... and adorned with images of pure gold . poor I was introduced to feveral of the English merchants there , and treated with much hofpitality and politenefs ; they have delicious fruit , and every luxury they can wifh for .
... and adorned with images of pure gold . poor I was introduced to feveral of the English merchants there , and treated with much hofpitality and politenefs ; they have delicious fruit , and every luxury they can wifh for .
الصفحة 20
... not neglect to make me pay an account of forty pounds , previous to his departure , for Styx ; and the rafcal who had my coffin and grave prepared , was for feveral months afterwards laughed at by the neighbouring cowskin heroes .
... not neglect to make me pay an account of forty pounds , previous to his departure , for Styx ; and the rafcal who had my coffin and grave prepared , was for feveral months afterwards laughed at by the neighbouring cowskin heroes .
الصفحة 26
... is effentially neceffary ; for numbers , I am confident , die through neglect . A glass of beverage , or fage - tea , may often be a cordial to the thirsty lip of a languid wretch , who has been sweating and frying feveral weeks ...
... is effentially neceffary ; for numbers , I am confident , die through neglect . A glass of beverage , or fage - tea , may often be a cordial to the thirsty lip of a languid wretch , who has been sweating and frying feveral weeks ...
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