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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الصفحة 46
... same predicament . I say , when all these , and many other matters , are not con- sidered of and prepared in time , if the canes are ripe , and dry weather ensues , they will turn red , or ( as they say ) get burnt ; after which ...
... same predicament . I say , when all these , and many other matters , are not con- sidered of and prepared in time , if the canes are ripe , and dry weather ensues , they will turn red , or ( as they say ) get burnt ; after which ...
الصفحة 65
... same ; these foreskin- clipped scoundrels have clipped and sweated almost all the coin , so that every unmilled piece of gold is weighed and wrapped in paper , with the weight and value endorsed ; -hear what Jeremiah fays of them ...
... same ; these foreskin- clipped scoundrels have clipped and sweated almost all the coin , so that every unmilled piece of gold is weighed and wrapped in paper , with the weight and value endorsed ; -hear what Jeremiah fays of them ...
الصفحة 75
... same ship from Clarendon - hall estate . You will please to order insurance accordingly . Mr. Sneaking Caution , the manager , tells me , that the cause of the fugars being so dark , and not having fo good a grain as I would wish , has ...
... same ship from Clarendon - hall estate . You will please to order insurance accordingly . Mr. Sneaking Caution , the manager , tells me , that the cause of the fugars being so dark , and not having fo good a grain as I would wish , has ...
الصفحة 86
... same ; for if that food on which two , or three , meagre animals barely exift was given to one , it might be fuf- ficient to fatten it ; hence , if that foil on which poor canes and spindly corn grow at once , was allotted to canes or ...
... same ; for if that food on which two , or three , meagre animals barely exift was given to one , it might be fuf- ficient to fatten it ; hence , if that foil on which poor canes and spindly corn grow at once , was allotted to canes or ...
الصفحة 88
... same notion , and have as little pity and regard for them as for their oxen , as it is their interest to preserve the lives of both and to get as much labour as possible out of them . Even creole children , as soon as they begin to lisp ...
... same notion , and have as little pity and regard for them as for their oxen , as it is their interest to preserve the lives of both and to get as much labour as possible out of them . Even creole children , as soon as they begin to lisp ...
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