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 14
I was hurt very much whenever I saw any of their bald - pated hypocritical guardians , called fryars : those artful dogs are numerous , and frequently parade the streets in procession with an air of solemnity ; the poor deluded nuns ...
I was hurt very much whenever I saw any of their bald - pated hypocritical guardians , called fryars : those artful dogs are numerous , and frequently parade the streets in procession with an air of solemnity ; the poor deluded nuns ...
الصفحة 18
1 natives , and till it becomes deluted or weakened by sickness , frequent perspirations , internally and externally , and other evacuations , they seldom enjoy a right state of health . If you take care of yourself in the beginning ...
1 natives , and till it becomes deluted or weakened by sickness , frequent perspirations , internally and externally , and other evacuations , they seldom enjoy a right state of health . If you take care of yourself in the beginning ...
الصفحة 21
Quacks , in general , make as free with their conftitutions as other people , and get themselves frequently drunk , which is very wrong , for they often administer medicine when they are deprived of their senses , and visit their ...
Quacks , in general , make as free with their conftitutions as other people , and get themselves frequently drunk , which is very wrong , for they often administer medicine when they are deprived of their senses , and visit their ...
الصفحة 22
... are frequent and often fatal attendants , not only on Exropeans , but Creoles also ; it often amazed me to find how imperceptibly my Hesh melted , or stole away from my skin and bones , till I became the ghost of what I had been .
... are frequent and often fatal attendants , not only on Exropeans , but Creoles also ; it often amazed me to find how imperceptibly my Hesh melted , or stole away from my skin and bones , till I became the ghost of what I had been .
الصفحة 23
... January and February ; when fainting ' beneath his meridian rays for want of a cooling breeze , I frequently plunged myself into a river or gully , though I never experienced the bad effect of such ill - timed bathing afterwards .
... January and February ; when fainting ' beneath his meridian rays for want of a cooling breeze , I frequently plunged myself into a river or gully , though I never experienced the bad effect of such ill - timed bathing afterwards .
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