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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... fome of a yellow , fome a crimson dye , And fome the colour of the azure sky ; Those beauteous fcenes did often entertain My penfive thoughts , and charmed ev'ry vein . B 2 As As you probably , may call at Madiera , I IN THE WEST INDIA ...
... fome of a yellow , fome a crimson dye , And fome the colour of the azure sky ; Those beauteous fcenes did often entertain My penfive thoughts , and charmed ev'ry vein . B 2 As As you probably , may call at Madiera , I IN THE WEST INDIA ...
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
... fome hundreds of them , are cooped up in convents ; what pity that fine young women should be compelled to whither out their days in fuch inglorious dens of folitude ? Deluded to think their prayers cannot reach heaven if not offered in ...
... fome hundreds of them , are cooped up in convents ; what pity that fine young women should be compelled to whither out their days in fuch inglorious dens of folitude ? Deluded to think their prayers cannot reach heaven if not offered in ...
الصفحة 15
... fome fevere toil , or bad weather , having previously got the confent of the captain , or mate , least they get drunk and neglect their duty , and you should be blamed . I love failors ; -they are generous , rough , uncouth beings ; do ...
... fome fevere toil , or bad weather , having previously got the confent of the captain , or mate , least they get drunk and neglect their duty , and you should be blamed . I love failors ; -they are generous , rough , uncouth beings ; do ...
الصفحة 20
... fome hours after , my brother book - keeper , who had fome compaffion for me , brought a bottle of the wine into my room , and made me take a glafs of it , and in a little time after gave me more , mixed with water , which caused me to ...
... fome hours after , my brother book - keeper , who had fome compaffion for me , brought a bottle of the wine into my room , and made me take a glafs of it , and in a little time after gave me more , mixed with water , which caused me to ...
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