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 84
He gave strict orders to the watchmen to hide every Nave which they might find breaking the corn or canes ; i . e . to chop and murder them , and bury them secretly ; and when the skeleton of a Nave , who had been “ done over " in this ...
He gave strict orders to the watchmen to hide every Nave which they might find breaking the corn or canes ; i . e . to chop and murder them , and bury them secretly ; and when the skeleton of a Nave , who had been “ done over " in this ...
الصفحة 86
I must not omit to mention a very wrong practice of overseers , most injurious to proprietors in general ; that is , planting Indian corn , or peas , amongst the canes ; it is very evident to the meanest capacity , that the richest soil ...
I must not omit to mention a very wrong practice of overseers , most injurious to proprietors in general ; that is , planting Indian corn , or peas , amongst the canes ; it is very evident to the meanest capacity , that the richest soil ...
الصفحة 87
them up . of his estate to a cabbage - headed gentleman in Kingstown : On his return , finding Indian corn Aourishing through the canes ( for corn has a luxurious stalk , and has the advantage of canes in quick vegitation ) the corn was ...
them up . of his estate to a cabbage - headed gentleman in Kingstown : On his return , finding Indian corn Aourishing through the canes ( for corn has a luxurious stalk , and has the advantage of canes in quick vegitation ) the corn was ...
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 91
了 9 I plant fields of Indian corn , Ay , and plains of Guinea grass ; Pamper horses night and morn , And indulge my favourite lafs . When sol is blazing in the sphere , I fit coolly with my fair ; Or kiss and play , so banish care ...
了 9 I plant fields of Indian corn , Ay , and plains of Guinea grass ; Pamper horses night and morn , And indulge my favourite lafs . When sol is blazing in the sphere , I fit coolly with my fair ; Or kiss and play , so banish care ...
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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