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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... and the whoļe county of Cornwall , were almost destroyed by an hurricane and heavy rains , Mina rote about thirty feet high in fome places ; this I was convinced of after the flood abated , by observing part of a negro hut and other ...
... and the whoļe county of Cornwall , were almost destroyed by an hurricane and heavy rains , Mina rote about thirty feet high in fome places ; this I was convinced of after the flood abated , by observing part of a negro hut and other ...
الصفحة 40
The woods yield choice timber , fic for almost all uses ; such as locust , mastic , bull - tree , dogwood , brasilitto , mahogany and cedars , as huge and lofty as - che cedars of Lebanon ; also lignumvitæ , which yields that valuable ...
The woods yield choice timber , fic for almost all uses ; such as locust , mastic , bull - tree , dogwood , brasilitto , mahogany and cedars , as huge and lofty as - che cedars of Lebanon ; also lignumvitæ , which yields that valuable ...
الصفحة 62
fellow creatures , friends and acquantance , daily devoured by the carion crows ; so that out of fifteen hundred volunteers , only eighteen or twenty returned to tell the doleful tale ; the troops fared almost as bad .
fellow creatures , friends and acquantance , daily devoured by the carion crows ; so that out of fifteen hundred volunteers , only eighteen or twenty returned to tell the doleful tale ; the troops fared almost as bad .
الصفحة 65
... and very expert at mixing base metals together , and polishing and gilding the fame ; these foreskinclipped scoundrels have clipped and sweated almost all the coin , so that every unmilled piece of gold is weighed ...
... and very expert at mixing base metals together , and polishing and gilding the fame ; these foreskinclipped scoundrels have clipped and sweated almost all the coin , so that every unmilled piece of gold is weighed ...
الصفحة 98
Notwithstanding all this , clerks like to dress genteelly on Sundays ; for every one , I believe , is buoyed up with the notion that one time or another he will be a merchant ; well knowing that almost every Weft - India merchant was ...
Notwithstanding all this , clerks like to dress genteelly on Sundays ; for every one , I believe , is buoyed up with the notion that one time or another he will be a merchant ; well knowing that almost every Weft - India merchant was ...
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almoſt alſo appear attend attorney beſt better book-keepers buſineſs called canes carry cattle cent commonly corn cowſkin Creole cure drink eight eſtate eyes favour feet field firſt five follows fond four frequently friends gentlemen give ground hands heart hero himſelf houſe human hundred ignorant iſland Jamaica juſtice keep kind known ladies leaſt liquor live manager manner maſter means merchants mind miſs Mongrel morning moſt muſt nature Naves negroes never night obliged obſerve once overſeers pain particularly perſon plantation planting pleaſe poor reſpect ſame ſay ſee ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall ſome ſoon ſtock ſuch ſugar taken themſelves theſe thing thoſe thouſand till town turn uſe waſhed Weſt Indies whole wine wiſh women woods young yourſelf