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 165
... West India planters and overseers to take their flaves which had been humanized in the West Indies with them , and to fettle the first fugar works ; and to give good encouragement to artifts and mechanics to adventure and settle amongst ...
... West India planters and overseers to take their flaves which had been humanized in the West Indies with them , and to fettle the first fugar works ; and to give good encouragement to artifts and mechanics to adventure and settle amongst ...
الصفحة 167
... faculties almoft nightly in bowls of in- fanity , or drowsy oblivion . Grog drinking , and fmoaking fegars , is a baneful and obnoxious practice all over the Welt- Weft - Indies . It has been remarked , that IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 167.
... faculties almoft nightly in bowls of in- fanity , or drowsy oblivion . Grog drinking , and fmoaking fegars , is a baneful and obnoxious practice all over the Welt- Weft - Indies . It has been remarked , that IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 167.
الصفحة 168
J. B. Moreton. Weft - Indies . It has been remarked , that if a man makes grog his favourite drink , and mixes it ever fo weak at the beginning , he will make it stronger and ftronger by degrees ... Indies. It has been remarked, that ...
J. B. Moreton. Weft - Indies . It has been remarked , that if a man makes grog his favourite drink , and mixes it ever fo weak at the beginning , he will make it stronger and ftronger by degrees ... Indies. It has been remarked, that ...
الصفحة 174
... Indies , gambling is prac- . ticed to a great and ridiculous extreme , and that too on Sabbath's : in every Tavern you'll find card , billiard , backgaramon , and various other other tables and ways and means of winning and loofing 174 ...
... Indies , gambling is prac- . ticed to a great and ridiculous extreme , and that too on Sabbath's : in every Tavern you'll find card , billiard , backgaramon , and various other other tables and ways and means of winning and loofing 174 ...
الصفحة 178
... Indies are choked up with fuch poisonous weeds , —who , " Like pikes lank with hunger , who mifs of their " ends , " They bite their companions , and prey on their " friends . " At a gambling table all people are on a foot- ing ...
... Indies are choked up with fuch poisonous weeds , —who , " Like pikes lank with hunger , who mifs of their " ends , " They bite their companions , and prey on their " friends . " At a gambling table all people are on a foot- ing ...
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