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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The capital is Fonchial , and contains about five hundred houses ; the natives are Portuguese , and dress in the same uniform of their custom - house officers ; their characteristic is , that they are poor , proud , superftitious and ...
The capital is Fonchial , and contains about five hundred houses ; the natives are Portuguese , and dress in the same uniform of their custom - house officers ; their characteristic is , that they are poor , proud , superftitious and ...
الصفحة 14
I was hurt very much whenever I saw any of their bald - pated hypocritical guardians , called fryars : those artful dogs are numerous , and frequently parade the streets in procession with an air of solemnity ; the poor deluded nuns ...
I was hurt very much whenever I saw any of their bald - pated hypocritical guardians , called fryars : those artful dogs are numerous , and frequently parade the streets in procession with an air of solemnity ; the poor deluded nuns ...
الصفحة 15
I love failors ; -they are generous , rough , uncouth beings ; do not treat them with contempt or disrespect ; though ragged , poor and dirty , they may be good flesh and blood ; yet do not make free with them , that is , to be ...
I love failors ; -they are generous , rough , uncouth beings ; do not treat them with contempt or disrespect ; though ragged , poor and dirty , they may be good flesh and blood ; yet do not make free with them , that is , to be ...
الصفحة 16
c . with sugar , rum and molasses , frying on the waves , together with the intense heat , and the horrid scene of poor Africans , male and female , busy at their Jabour with hardly rags sufficient to secret their nakedness ...
c . with sugar , rum and molasses , frying on the waves , together with the intense heat , and the horrid scene of poor Africans , male and female , busy at their Jabour with hardly rags sufficient to secret their nakedness ...
الصفحة 27
Of all the diseases poor mortals are subject to , dry belly - achs are attended with the most excrutiating torture ; it is impossible to conceive the extreme pain and agony the patient suffers in one hour : nothing but the pains of hell ...
Of all the diseases poor mortals are subject to , dry belly - achs are attended with the most excrutiating torture ; it is impossible to conceive the extreme pain and agony the patient suffers in one hour : nothing but the pains of hell ...
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almoſt alſo amongſt appear attend attorney beſt better blood book-keepers buſineſs called canes carry cattle cent commonly corn Creole cure dear drink eight eſtate favour feet field firſt five fond four frequently friends gentlemen give ground hands heart hero himſelf horſes houſe human hundred ignorant iſland Jamaica juſtice keep kind known ladies laſt leaſt liquor live manager manner maſter means merchants mind miſs Mongrel morning moſt muſt nature Naves negroes never night obliged obſerve once overſeers pain particularly perſon plantation planting pleaſe poor ſame ſay ſee ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall ſome ſtock ſuch ſugar taken themſelves theſe thing thoſe thouſand till tion town turn uſe waſhed Weſt Indies whole wine wiſh women woods young yourſelf