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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... or pork ; in short , as soon as they had got a piece of beef and a few glasses of port , they departed well pleased ; in like manner they paid their devoirs to each ship ( the feet consisted of one hundred and eighty sail ) .
... or pork ; in short , as soon as they had got a piece of beef and a few glasses of port , they departed well pleased ; in like manner they paid their devoirs to each ship ( the feet consisted of one hundred and eighty sail ) .
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The capital is Fonchial , and contains about five hundred houses ; the natives are Portuguese , and dress in the same ... superftitious and treacherous ; the finest of their wonnen , some hundreds of them , are cooped up in convents ...
The capital is Fonchial , and contains about five hundred houses ; the natives are Portuguese , and dress in the same ... superftitious and treacherous ; the finest of their wonnen , some hundreds of them , are cooped up in convents ...
الصفحة 19
“ To count them all would fail the poet's lungs , “ It asks an hundred mouths , an hundred tongues . " AIR . My Friend and Pitcher . How happy is the doctor's fate In that fweet çlime : he once gets footing , Ador'd by all on each ...
“ To count them all would fail the poet's lungs , “ It asks an hundred mouths , an hundred tongues . " AIR . My Friend and Pitcher . How happy is the doctor's fate In that fweet çlime : he once gets footing , Ador'd by all on each ...
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... so that he commonly gets about one hundred , or one hundred and fifty pounds for the attendance of the negroes and and whites on each plantation yearly , and all that for about thirty shillings worth of medicine .
... so that he commonly gets about one hundred , or one hundred and fifty pounds for the attendance of the negroes and and whites on each plantation yearly , and all that for about thirty shillings worth of medicine .
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... it is about one hundred and fifty miles long , and fixty broad , containing about six thoufand square miles , and is about four thousand five hundred miles from England , and was discovered in the year 1493 , by Christopher Columbus ...
... it is about one hundred and fifty miles long , and fixty broad , containing about six thoufand square miles , and is about four thousand five hundred miles from England , and was discovered in the year 1493 , by Christopher Columbus ...
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