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 EditionJ. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 - 192 من الصفحات |
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... thofe artful dogs are numerous , and frequently parade the ftreets in proceffion with an air of folemnity ; the deluded nuns think thofe rogues are all faints , by whom they are taught to believe that fuperftition , ignorance and folly ...
... thofe artful dogs are numerous , and frequently parade the ftreets in proceffion with an air of folemnity ; the deluded nuns think thofe rogues are all faints , by whom they are taught to believe that fuperftition , ignorance and folly ...
الصفحة 35
... thofe dens of infamy they riot away their days and nights , drinking new rum , grog , punch , or four porter , fo that they are deprived of their fenfes , and kept in a perpetual state of intoxication ' till they fpend all their prize ...
... thofe dens of infamy they riot away their days and nights , drinking new rum , grog , punch , or four porter , fo that they are deprived of their fenfes , and kept in a perpetual state of intoxication ' till they fpend all their prize ...
الصفحة 36
... thofe grog fhop keepers keep a horfe and kitterine , that is , a one horfe chaife , and on fundays drive about the town and country , like ladies and gentlemen , fuperbly decorated in fineries , the fpoils of war , plundered from ...
... thofe grog fhop keepers keep a horfe and kitterine , that is , a one horfe chaife , and on fundays drive about the town and country , like ladies and gentlemen , fuperbly decorated in fineries , the fpoils of war , plundered from ...
الصفحة 38
... thofe fwell to an amazing height ; the 2d of October 1780 , when the town of Savana - la - Mar , and the whole county of Cornwall , were almost destroyed by an hurricane and heavy rains , Mina rofe about thirty feet high in fome places ...
... thofe fwell to an amazing height ; the 2d of October 1780 , when the town of Savana - la - Mar , and the whole county of Cornwall , were almost destroyed by an hurricane and heavy rains , Mina rofe about thirty feet high in fome places ...
الصفحة 44
... thofe penns is often injurious to the feet and limbs of the cattle , and give them diftempers of which many die . The fmall weakly gang of negroes carry the dung on boards or baskets on their heads , and spread it thinly in the holes ...
... thofe penns is often injurious to the feet and limbs of the cattle , and give them diftempers of which many die . The fmall weakly gang of negroes carry the dung on boards or baskets on their heads , and spread it thinly in the holes ...
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