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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... give you some instructions and advice respecting both ; I shall speak from experience , for I was five years in that island ; and should what I shall offer , prove any way instrumental in promoting your happiness , I shall hereafter ...
... give you some instructions and advice respecting both ; I shall speak from experience , for I was five years in that island ; and should what I shall offer , prove any way instrumental in promoting your happiness , I shall hereafter ...
الصفحة 12
... give you an idea of that small Island by an extract from my journal . As foon as we came to anchor oppofite Madeira , a small African ifland , situated in about 32 ° , N. latitude and 16 ° , 50 ' W. lon- gitude , we got into the small ...
... give you an idea of that small Island by an extract from my journal . As foon as we came to anchor oppofite Madeira , a small African ifland , situated in about 32 ° , N. latitude and 16 ° , 50 ' W. lon- gitude , we got into the small ...
الصفحة 14
... give life to others . 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 folemnity ; the ...
... give life to others . 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 folemnity ; the ...
الصفحة 15
... give a bottle amongst them , let it be done after some severe toil , or bad weather , having previously got the consent of the captain , or mate , leaft they get drunk and neglect their duty , and you should be blamed . I love sailors ...
... give a bottle amongst them , let it be done after some severe toil , or bad weather , having previously got the consent of the captain , or mate , leaft they get drunk and neglect their duty , and you should be blamed . I love sailors ...
الصفحة 16
... give fuch light that you may read a book thereby . You will aso be surrounded by another kind of infects , about the size of midges , called muf- quittoes , buzzing in your ears their disagreeable tunes : they have long tubes or stings ...
... give fuch light that you may read a book thereby . You will aso be surrounded by another kind of infects , about the size of midges , called muf- quittoes , buzzing in your ears their disagreeable tunes : they have long tubes or stings ...
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