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 11
The curling waves , now glittering with white , Again , the colour of the fable night ; On one huge furge a purple hue I've feen , And on another an undulating green ; fome of a yellow , fome a crimson dye , And fome the colour of the ...
The curling waves , now glittering with white , Again , the colour of the fable night ; On one huge furge a purple hue I've feen , And on another an undulating green ; fome of a yellow , fome a crimson dye , And fome the colour of the ...
الصفحة 12
We then with difficulty got afhore , the fwell or furf at the beech being always fo rong , that fmall boats would be dafhed to pieces if great care was not taken to keep them a float fome diftance from the fhore : people paffing and ...
We then with difficulty got afhore , the fwell or furf at the beech being always fo rong , that fmall boats would be dafhed to pieces if great care was not taken to keep them a float fome diftance from the fhore : people paffing and ...
الصفحة 13
... the natives are Portuguese , and drefs in the 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 ...
... the natives are Portuguese , and drefs in the 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 ...
الصفحة 15
... let it be done after 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 ...
... let it be done after 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 ...
الصفحة 20
When the meffenger returned , which was 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 ...
When the meffenger returned , which was 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 ...
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