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 35
... but none fo elegant , nor conducted with fuch regularity , as the one Mark Howard kept , now called the South Sea Houfe ; there are alfo an incredible number of petty ones , called grog fhops , occupied by people of the vileft ...
... but none fo elegant , nor conducted with fuch regularity , as the one Mark Howard kept , now called the South Sea Houfe ; there are alfo an incredible number of petty ones , called grog fhops , occupied by people of the vileft ...
الصفحة 38
May and October are commonly the rainy months , at which time the rains , ( or feasons , as they are called ) fet in , and violently fall for feveral days ; fometimes in rapid torrents , com → pofing innumerable rivers and gullies ...
May and October are commonly the rainy months , at which time the rains , ( or feasons , as they are called ) fet in , and violently fall for feveral days ; fometimes in rapid torrents , com → pofing innumerable rivers and gullies ...
الصفحة 45
After the first crop is taken off there fprings up a fecond one , called rattoons , which often is better than the firft . If the eftate is a poor foil , there are seldom more than two crops of rattoons taken off till the ground is ...
After the first crop is taken off there fprings up a fecond one , called rattoons , which often is better than the firft . If the eftate is a poor foil , there are seldom more than two crops of rattoons taken off till the ground is ...
الصفحة 47
... about eighteen inches from the ground , on fmall pieces of metal about the fize and shape of whipping - tops , called capoufes ; the main or middle roller , being filled with a long bull - tree , which extends to the utmost centre ...
... about eighteen inches from the ground , on fmall pieces of metal about the fize and shape of whipping - tops , called capoufes ; the main or middle roller , being filled with a long bull - tree , which extends to the utmost centre ...
الصفحة 48
... and then raked up and carried to a long large fhade , called a trash - house , where they are piled , as being the only fuel for boiling the fugar ; a prudent manager will always endeavour to keep his trashhouses full , fo that at ...
... and then raked up and carried to a long large fhade , called a trash - house , where they are piled , as being the only fuel for boiling the fugar ; a prudent manager will always endeavour to keep his trashhouses full , fo that at ...
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