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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الصفحة 11
... fometimes I have been almost induced to think I was failing through a flaming phofphorus . I fhall here fubmit an extract from a poem which I wrote on my first voyage . When Sol , cach day , withdrew his beams of light , And fable ...
... fometimes I have been almost induced to think I was failing through a flaming phofphorus . I fhall here fubmit an extract from a poem which I wrote on my first voyage . When Sol , cach day , withdrew his beams of light , And fable ...
الصفحة 12
... fometime after , a low , fat , fwarthy man , who could fpeak a little broken English , accompanied by two curious ill - looking fellows , yellow , tall and meagre , with black ragged coats and gold lace hats , fmall fwords , & c . & c ...
... fometime after , a low , fat , fwarthy man , who could fpeak a little broken English , accompanied by two curious ill - looking fellows , yellow , tall and meagre , with black ragged coats and gold lace hats , fmall fwords , & c . & c ...
الصفحة 38
... fometimes in rapid torrents , com- pofing innumerable rivers and gullies , and in fome places laying many low plantations under deluges of water , forcing the inhabitants , like the Egyptians at the overflowing of the Nile , with their ...
... fometimes in rapid torrents , com- pofing innumerable rivers and gullies , and in fome places laying many low plantations under deluges of water , forcing the inhabitants , like the Egyptians at the overflowing of the Nile , with their ...
الصفحة 39
... fometimes hurricanes , which blast the canes through the air like chaff , tear up the largest trees by the roots , level the ftrongest ftores and houses to the ground , and leave not only towns and plantations , but whole parishes wafte ...
... fometimes hurricanes , which blast the canes through the air like chaff , tear up the largest trees by the roots , level the ftrongest ftores and houses to the ground , and leave not only towns and plantations , but whole parishes wafte ...
الصفحة 42
... fometime before day ; and about eist or nine o'clock the markets are all over , and the provifions either fold or carried away . The fea and rivers abound with great variety of excellent fish . In wet weather there are plenty of duck ...
... fometime before day ; and about eist or nine o'clock the markets are all over , and the provifions either fold or carried away . The fea and rivers abound with great variety of excellent fish . In wet weather there are plenty of duck ...
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