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 12
... N. latitude and 160 , 50 ' W. longitude , we got into the small boat , thinking to go on shore without ceremony ; but before we got half way , to our great astonishment , a smart firing from the fort obliged us to return to the ship ...
... N. latitude and 160 , 50 ' W. longitude , we got into the small boat , thinking to go on shore without ceremony ; but before we got half way , to our great astonishment , a smart firing from the fort obliged us to return to the ship ...
الصفحة 24
Should you enter into business in the country , when you see an impending shower , haften to your home , or to some hut , or place of shelter , till it is over ; and at working hours , when thus obliged to fhun the weather , do not keep ...
Should you enter into business in the country , when you see an impending shower , haften to your home , or to some hut , or place of shelter , till it is over ; and at working hours , when thus obliged to fhun the weather , do not keep ...
الصفحة 37
... and as it stands on a sandy beach , surrounded by the sea , the inhabitants are obliged to get their fresh water from Rochfort , or Kingston ; there are wherries hourly palling and repassing , between these places ; the usual fare ...
... and as it stands on a sandy beach , surrounded by the sea , the inhabitants are obliged to get their fresh water from Rochfort , or Kingston ; there are wherries hourly palling and repassing , between these places ; the usual fare ...
الصفحة 44
feet and a half square , and if the ground is not too dry and hard , forty negroes will dig an acre . in a day ; the usual price paid for holing an acre , by those who are obliged , for want of fufficient strength of their own , to hire ...
feet and a half square , and if the ground is not too dry and hard , forty negroes will dig an acre . in a day ; the usual price paid for holing an acre , by those who are obliged , for want of fufficient strength of their own , to hire ...
الصفحة 45
... at every one of which they have long blades , something like faggers ; ftill , as they grow towards maturity , those blades wither and become burthensome to the stalk , so that they are obliged to be taken off , and this is called ...
... at every one of which they have long blades , something like faggers ; ftill , as they grow towards maturity , those blades wither and become burthensome to the stalk , so that they are obliged to be taken off , and this is called ...
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