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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... for I was five years in that island ; and should what I shall offer , prove any way instrumental in promoting your happiness , I shall hereafter feel a secret satisfaction for hav . ing employed a few vacant hours so well .
... for I was five years in that island ; and should what I shall offer , prove any way instrumental in promoting your happiness , I shall hereafter feel a secret satisfaction for hav . ing employed a few vacant hours so well .
الصفحة 13
The capital is Fonchial , and contains about five hundred houses ; the natives are Portuguese , and dress in the same uniform of their custom - house officers ; their characteristic is , that they are poor , proud , superftitious and ...
The capital is Fonchial , and contains about five hundred houses ; the natives are Portuguese , and dress in the same uniform of their custom - house officers ; their characteristic is , that they are poor , proud , superftitious and ...
الصفحة 15
They will not only shave them with a rusty iron hoop , but lather them with pitch and tar , and duck them in the sea , till they had wished that they never : were born ; fo that it will be necessary to lay in five or six gallons of rum ...
They will not only shave them with a rusty iron hoop , but lather them with pitch and tar , and duck them in the sea , till they had wished that they never : were born ; fo that it will be necessary to lay in five or six gallons of rum ...
الصفحة 16
On your arrival at Port - Royal , the negroes in small canoes , or bom - boats , coming along side the ship with coffee , fruit , and vegetables , will attract your attention ; but when you get up to Kingstown , if you had five more ...
On your arrival at Port - Royal , the negroes in small canoes , or bom - boats , coming along side the ship with coffee , fruit , and vegetables , will attract your attention ; but when you get up to Kingstown , if you had five more ...
الصفحة 21
The common charge for each negroe , whether they are fick or well , is five shillings yearly , besides the benefit of venereals , for which he makes a separate charge , so that he commonly gets about one hundred , or one hundred and ...
The common charge for each negroe , whether they are fick or well , is five shillings yearly , besides the benefit of venereals , for which he makes a separate charge , so that he commonly gets about one hundred , or one hundred and ...
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