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 49
... called a tach , the liquor is boiled into a thick fyrrup , and by turn- ing up the ladle , and obferving the white grain on the bottom thereof , the boilers know when it is fufficiently boiled , and fit to be taken off ; there are many ...
... called a tach , the liquor is boiled into a thick fyrrup , and by turn- ing up the ladle , and obferving the white grain on the bottom thereof , the boilers know when it is fufficiently boiled , and fit to be taken off ; there are many ...
الصفحة 51
... called in the Wind- ward Islands , overfeers , or negroe - drivers , during crop I never got more than three or four hours fleep out of the twenty - four : when it was my weekly turn to go to bed nightly at eight or nine o'clock , P. M. ...
... called in the Wind- ward Islands , overfeers , or negroe - drivers , during crop I never got more than three or four hours fleep out of the twenty - four : when it was my weekly turn to go to bed nightly at eight or nine o'clock , P. M. ...
الصفحة 79
... called an Overfeer ; and in the Windward Islands , a Manager ; and the Overfeer's Deputies are called Book - keepers ; and in the Windward Islands Overfeer's or Negro- Drivers ; however , when I have occafion to fpeak of either in ...
... called an Overfeer ; and in the Windward Islands , a Manager ; and the Overfeer's Deputies are called Book - keepers ; and in the Windward Islands Overfeer's or Negro- Drivers ; however , when I have occafion to fpeak of either in ...
الصفحة 92
... called , arrives , he enquires and delivers his letters of recommendation , and is got into business , as I obferved to you before ; indeed , if he has no letter nor friend , his own modeft behaviour and appear- ance will recommend him ...
... called , arrives , he enquires and delivers his letters of recommendation , and is got into business , as I obferved to you before ; indeed , if he has no letter nor friend , his own modeft behaviour and appear- ance will recommend him ...
الصفحة 93
... ( called a management ) through intereft ; in Jamaica it is not fo ; for I never knew an overfeer there who did not ferve at least two or three years , ( fave only Little Confequence before mentioned ) . When a young man gets into a good ...
... ( called a management ) through intereft ; in Jamaica it is not fo ; for I never knew an overfeer there who did not ferve at least two or three years , ( fave only Little Confequence before mentioned ) . When a young man gets into a good ...
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