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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as much as possible ; vomits and purgatives occasionally , and properly administered , may be serviceable . When you get to the warm latitudes and trade winds , which blow from the N , E , and E. N. E. you will feel yourself grow ...
as much as possible ; vomits and purgatives occasionally , and properly administered , may be serviceable . When you get to the warm latitudes and trade winds , which blow from the N , E , and E. N. E. you will feel yourself grow ...
الصفحة 15
... not make free with them , that is , to be chattering to them , or asking foolish questions on deck , or elsewhere : keep them at a proper distance , and they will respect and serve B 4 you , but behave familiar to them and they will.
... not make free with them , that is , to be chattering to them , or asking foolish questions on deck , or elsewhere : keep them at a proper distance , and they will respect and serve B 4 you , but behave familiar to them and they will.
الصفحة 24
... and bracing your limbs in a cold - bath , chuse a proper clean place in a river that is free from aligators , and go into it very early in the morning , when free from the prickly heat and every feverish symptom ; do not stay long ...
... and bracing your limbs in a cold - bath , chuse a proper clean place in a river that is free from aligators , and go into it very early in the morning , when free from the prickly heat and every feverish symptom ; do not stay long ...
الصفحة 26
Proper attendance is essentially necessary ; for numbers , I am confident , die through neglect . A glass of beverage , or fage - tea , may often bę a cordial to the thirsty lip of a languid wretch , who has been sweating and frying ...
Proper attendance is essentially necessary ; for numbers , I am confident , die through neglect . A glass of beverage , or fage - tea , may often bę a cordial to the thirsty lip of a languid wretch , who has been sweating and frying ...
الصفحة 28
... without scorching it , so he cannot have connections with lewd women , and escape diseases . Venereals are disorders of different kinds . A simple venereal , or cap , is not thought to hurt the constitution much , if properly cured ...
... without scorching it , so he cannot have connections with lewd women , and escape diseases . Venereals are disorders of different kinds . A simple venereal , or cap , is not thought to hurt the constitution much , if properly cured ...
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