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
... a smart firing from the fort obliged us to return to the ship ; sometime after , a
low , fat , swarthy man , who could speak a little broken English , accompanied by
two curious ill - looking fellows , yellow , tall and meagre , with black ragged coats
...
... a smart firing from the fort obliged us to return to the ship ; sometime after , a
low , fat , swarthy man , who could speak a little broken English , accompanied by
two curious ill - looking fellows , yellow , tall and meagre , with black ragged coats
...
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
loitering ...
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
loitering ...
الصفحة 77
It is quite common for an attorney to keep a favourite black or mulatta girl on
every estate , which the managers are obliged to pamper and indulge like
goddeffcs . Tom Coldweather , a gentleman in Spanish - Town , was attorney for
about forty ...
It is quite common for an attorney to keep a favourite black or mulatta girl on
every estate , which the managers are obliged to pamper and indulge like
goddeffcs . Tom Coldweather , a gentleman in Spanish - Town , was attorney for
about forty ...
الصفحة 127
Those gypsies have a wonderful ascendancy over men , and have injured many ,
both powerful and subordinate ; the poor Naves on a plantation are obliged to
pay them as much adoration as the Portuguese do the Hostess or Virgin Mary ;
for ...
Those gypsies have a wonderful ascendancy over men , and have injured many ,
both powerful and subordinate ; the poor Naves on a plantation are obliged to
pay them as much adoration as the Portuguese do the Hostess or Virgin Mary ;
for ...
الصفحة 149
... The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : “ Full many a flower is born to blush
unseen , “ And waste its sweetness on the desert air . " 1 On Sundays , they are
obliged to work all day in their grounds ; the book - keepers attend , and those ...
... The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : “ Full many a flower is born to blush
unseen , “ And waste its sweetness on the desert air . " 1 On Sundays , they are
obliged to work all day in their grounds ; the book - keepers attend , and those ...
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