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 63
... horses . There are about seventy attornies at law , and twenty barristers in the island ; amongst the latter , the oratorial Mr. Lewis and facetious Mr. Brown have diftinguished themfelves ; tho ' Mr. Brown is not fo fluent in fpeech as ...
... horses . There are about seventy attornies at law , and twenty barristers in the island ; amongst the latter , the oratorial Mr. Lewis and facetious Mr. Brown have diftinguished themfelves ; tho ' Mr. Brown is not fo fluent in fpeech as ...
الصفحة 85
... horses , a kitterine , and fine clothes , and was foon honoured with the appellation of the beau planter ; in short , he was the prince and emperor of coxcombs , and was making a fortune rapidly , until an unlucky circumstance ...
... horses , a kitterine , and fine clothes , and was foon honoured with the appellation of the beau planter ; in short , he was the prince and emperor of coxcombs , and was making a fortune rapidly , until an unlucky circumstance ...
الصفحة 146
... tinue until twelve ; at which time the bell is rung ; they then disperse about the country to pick or gather grafs and vines for the overfeers horfes horses and swine ; about forty - five minutes after 146 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... tinue until twelve ; at which time the bell is rung ; they then disperse about the country to pick or gather grafs and vines for the overfeers horfes horses and swine ; about forty - five minutes after 146 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 147
J. B. Moreton. horses and swine ; about forty - five minutes after one , the bell is rung to order them out ; and every one who is not in the field precisely at two , gets a certain number of lashes , by the di- rection of the book ...
J. B. Moreton. horses and swine ; about forty - five minutes after one , the bell is rung to order them out ; and every one who is not in the field precisely at two , gets a certain number of lashes , by the di- rection of the book ...
الصفحة 153
... horse , me no mare , me no mule , No use me ill , Obissha . Or , thus If me want for go in a * Ebo , Me can't go there ! Since dem tief me from a Guinea , Me can't go there ! If me want for go in a * Congo , Me can't go there ! Since ...
... horse , me no mare , me no mule , No use me ill , Obissha . Or , thus If me want for go in a * Ebo , Me can't go there ! Since dem tief me from a Guinea , Me can't go there ! If me want for go in a * Congo , Me can't go there ! Since ...
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