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 97
... As merchants in general are batchelors , they dine at ordinaries ; their clerks are obliged to find themselves in board , washing , and sometimes lodging ; lodging ; and though one gets a falary of 1501 IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 97.
... As merchants in general are batchelors , they dine at ordinaries ; their clerks are obliged to find themselves in board , washing , and sometimes lodging ; lodging ; and though one gets a falary of 1501 IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 97.
الصفحة 114
... sometimes through thickets of Guinea grass fix or seven feet high , to pluck star apples , neeseberries , oranges , & c . & c . at the neighbouring gardens and orangeries ; and when the starry mantled night overspread her fable canopy ...
... sometimes through thickets of Guinea grass fix or seven feet high , to pluck star apples , neeseberries , oranges , & c . & c . at the neighbouring gardens and orangeries ; and when the starry mantled night overspread her fable canopy ...
الصفحة 128
... sometime in the country , get yourself introduced by some friendly ac- quaintance , the affectation of these gipsies will dispel care , and make you laugh heartily ; besides , you will have opportunities of feeing and getting acquainted ...
... sometime in the country , get yourself introduced by some friendly ac- quaintance , the affectation of these gipsies will dispel care , and make you laugh heartily ; besides , you will have opportunities of feeing and getting acquainted ...
الصفحة 137
... sometimes happen when an odd one of the latter gets astray in the woods , that the may be overpowered and debauched by those satyrs ; but I am well con- vinced from good authority , and my own know- ledge of the black sex , that they ...
... sometimes happen when an odd one of the latter gets astray in the woods , that the may be overpowered and debauched by those satyrs ; but I am well con- vinced from good authority , and my own know- ledge of the black sex , that they ...
الصفحة 147
... many fine flaves ; and often too , when moft needed ; nay , and sometimes loose them all together ; for being exposed to the heavy rains and hunger , subjects them to lock - jaws. rains norance IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 147.
... many fine flaves ; and often too , when moft needed ; nay , and sometimes loose them all together ; for being exposed to the heavy rains and hunger , subjects them to lock - jaws. rains norance IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 147.
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