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 162
... carrying a corpse to the grave , though perhaps not fifty yards , lay it down fe-- veral times on the way , thinking that fome evil fpirit has put a wonderful weight into it , too heavy heavy to be carried by men ; so that they 162 ...
... carrying a corpse to the grave , though perhaps not fifty yards , lay it down fe-- veral times on the way , thinking that fome evil fpirit has put a wonderful weight into it , too heavy heavy to be carried by men ; so that they 162 ...
الصفحة 163
J. B. Moreton. heavy to be carried by men ; so that they fome- times take a whole night to carry and inter a corpfe , ftraining themselves , feemingly , much as a few failors at heaving up a best bower . as One thing more : I ...
J. B. Moreton. heavy to be carried by men ; so that they fome- times take a whole night to carry and inter a corpfe , ftraining themselves , feemingly , much as a few failors at heaving up a best bower . as One thing more : I ...
الصفحة 164
... capable of supplying all Europe with thofe commodities at vaftly cheaper rates than through the medium of fla- very . But in order to carry this plan into exe- cution , cution , and to perform fo great and laudable a 164 MANNERS AND ...
... capable of supplying all Europe with thofe commodities at vaftly cheaper rates than through the medium of fla- very . But in order to carry this plan into exe- cution , cution , and to perform fo great and laudable a 164 MANNERS AND ...
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