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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الصفحة 85
Little Consequence , a journeyman weaver , had not been six months a book - keeper , until , through the influence of his brother , a pedagogue , who got the parsonage of one of the best parishes in the island , he was preferred to the ...
Little Consequence , a journeyman weaver , had not been six months a book - keeper , until , through the influence of his brother , a pedagogue , who got the parsonage of one of the best parishes in the island , he was preferred to the ...
الصفحة 89
and gallantry with black and tawny wenches ; of their insulting tyrannic behaviour to their raw book - keepers , or exposing the blemishes of their absent neighbouring acquaintances ; or of corn and cane pieces ; and the ways and means ...
and gallantry with black and tawny wenches ; of their insulting tyrannic behaviour to their raw book - keepers , or exposing the blemishes of their absent neighbouring acquaintances ; or of corn and cane pieces ; and the ways and means ...
الصفحة 90
Sometimes I just take a ride , Over the plantation wide ; Or at home I ftruť and stride , A famous cowskin hero ! My book - keepers I humble , Humble as the canine race ; When they attempt to grumble , I surely kick them out of place .
Sometimes I just take a ride , Over the plantation wide ; Or at home I ftruť and stride , A famous cowskin hero ! My book - keepers I humble , Humble as the canine race ; When they attempt to grumble , I surely kick them out of place .
الصفحة 93
... The usual salary for a book - keeper in the country is £ 40 per annum , with board , washing and lodging ... in the windward islands , book - keepers are not permitted to mess at overseer's tables , for which reason they are not so ...
... The usual salary for a book - keeper in the country is £ 40 per annum , with board , washing and lodging ... in the windward islands , book - keepers are not permitted to mess at overseer's tables , for which reason they are not so ...
الصفحة 94
The first charge a book - keeper gets is that of the sheep , goats , swine , and poultry ( called the small stock ) with the keys of the corn , and other ftores ; he must be very particular in getting up early every morning to hasten to ...
The first charge a book - keeper gets is that of the sheep , goats , swine , and poultry ( called the small stock ) with the keys of the corn , and other ftores ; he must be very particular in getting up early every morning to hasten to ...
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| العنوان | 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 |
| المؤلف | J. B. Moreton |
| الناشر | J. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 |
| أصلي من | المكتبة البريطانية |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 21 تشرين الأول (أكتوبر) 2013 |
| عدد الصفحات | 192 من الصفحات |
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