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 33
There are about forty towns and villages , amongst which none are worthy of note
but Kingston , Saint Jago de la Vega , vulgarly called Spanish Town , Port Royal ,
and Montego Bay , the rest hardly deserve the name of villages , only small ...
There are about forty towns and villages , amongst which none are worthy of note
but Kingston , Saint Jago de la Vega , vulgarly called Spanish Town , Port Royal ,
and Montego Bay , the rest hardly deserve the name of villages , only small ...
الصفحة 57
c . will cost about 8,000 ) ; one hundred and forty Naves will cost about 60ool .
more ; and if there is not the convenience of water to the mill , and the plantation
is far from the shipping - place , there will be forty good mules , and about one ...
c . will cost about 8,000 ) ; one hundred and forty Naves will cost about 60ool .
more ; and if there is not the convenience of water to the mill , and the plantation
is far from the shipping - place , there will be forty good mules , and about one ...
الصفحة 59
A colt will sell for 30 , 40 , 50 , or bol . an ox for 201. a fac sheep for 405. and after
the first four or five years , I should suppose a penn of this kind would annually
have forty forty colts , forty oxen , and one hundred sheep IN THE WEST INDIA ...
A colt will sell for 30 , 40 , 50 , or bol . an ox for 201. a fac sheep for 405. and after
the first four or five years , I should suppose a penn of this kind would annually
have forty forty colts , forty oxen , and one hundred sheep IN THE WEST INDIA ...
الصفحة 60
J. B. Moreton. forty colts , forty oxen , and one hundred sheep at least to dispose
of , which would amount to more than 2000 l . and would well reward the
industrious grazier . There are some fine penns in the parish of St. Ann's , where
many of ...
J. B. Moreton. forty colts , forty oxen , and one hundred sheep at least to dispose
of , which would amount to more than 2000 l . and would well reward the
industrious grazier . There are some fine penns in the parish of St. Ann's , where
many of ...
الصفحة 77
Tom Coldweather , a gentleman in Spanish - Town , was attorney for about forty
plantations , and had thiry or forty doxys of this kind in keeping : I suppose each
flattered the debauchee that they waited chaste for his coming . The vanity of ...
Tom Coldweather , a gentleman in Spanish - Town , was attorney for about forty
plantations , and had thiry or forty doxys of this kind in keeping : I suppose each
flattered the debauchee that they waited chaste for his coming . The vanity of ...
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almoſt alſo amongſt appear attend attorney beſt better book-keepers buſineſs called canes carry cattle cent commonly corn Creole cure dear drink eight eſtate favour feet field firſt five fond four frequently friends gentlemen give ground hands heart hero himſelf horſes houſe human hundred ignorant iſland Jamaica juſtice keep kind known ladies laſt leaſt liquor live manager manner maſter means merchants mind miſs Mongrel morning moſt muſt nature Naves negroes never night obliged obſerve once overſeers pain particularly perſon plantation planting pleaſe poor ſame ſay ſee ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall ſome ſtock ſuch ſugar taken themſelves theſe thing thoſe thouſand till tion town turn uſe waſhed wenches Weſt Indies whole wine wiſh women woods young yourſelf