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 13
Deluded to think their prayers cannot reach heaven if not offered in goals : I was grieved to the foul whenever I faw any of them peeping through their horrid iron grates - I fuppofe it is a paffage in St. Paul that induces them to live ...
Deluded to think their prayers cannot reach heaven if not offered in goals : I was grieved to the foul whenever I faw any of them peeping through their horrid iron grates - I fuppofe it is a paffage in St. Paul that induces them to live ...
الصفحة 20
Emetic had acquainted the manager that I was putrid , and would not live two hours , and directed him to bury me the moment the breath was out of me , as my diforder was taking ; upon which the creeping fcoundrel ordered a coffin to be ...
Emetic had acquainted the manager that I was putrid , and would not live two hours , and directed him to bury me the moment the breath was out of me , as my diforder was taking ; upon which the creeping fcoundrel ordered a coffin to be ...
الصفحة 31
... fuch as vegetables of all kinds , falt and finoked meats , fpirits , beer and spices , and to live as temperate and low as poffible ; bread , penada , barley gruel , lintfeed tea , and fuch like , fhould be your only nourishment for ...
... fuch as vegetables of all kinds , falt and finoked meats , fpirits , beer and spices , and to live as temperate and low as poffible ; bread , penada , barley gruel , lintfeed tea , and fuch like , fhould be your only nourishment for ...
الصفحة 38
... and in fome places laying many low plantations under deluges of water , forcing the inhabitants , like the Egyptians at the overflowing of the Nile , with their flaves and live ftock , to take shelter in the mountains .
... and in fome places laying many low plantations under deluges of water , forcing the inhabitants , like the Egyptians at the overflowing of the Nile , with their flaves and live ftock , to take shelter in the mountains .
الصفحة 60
There are fome fine penns in the parish of St. Ann's , where many of the proprietors refide , and live content and happy . I fhall conclude this fubject , and proceed to the natives ; and though I may be fevere in the following pages ...
There are fome fine penns in the parish of St. Ann's , where many of the proprietors refide , and live content and happy . I fhall conclude this fubject , and proceed to the natives ; and though I may be fevere in the following pages ...
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