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 30
... drink some thin water gruel , which probably will work you downwards ; next morning take the purge diffolved in a cup of warm water , and work it off with thin gruel or weak tea ; at night , when going to bed , take one of the bolufes ...
... drink some thin water gruel , which probably will work you downwards ; next morning take the purge diffolved in a cup of warm water , and work it off with thin gruel or weak tea ; at night , when going to bed , take one of the bolufes ...
الصفحة 35
... drinking new rum , grog , punch , or four porter , • so that they are deprived of their fenfes , and kept in a perpetual state of intoxication ' till they spend all their prize money or wages , and are after- wards plundered of their ...
... drinking new rum , grog , punch , or four porter , • so that they are deprived of their fenfes , and kept in a perpetual state of intoxication ' till they spend all their prize money or wages , and are after- wards plundered of their ...
الصفحة 36
... drinking , gambling , or in the company of lewd mongrel women . Sunday is the greatest market day ; the negroes from all parts of the country flock to town , hundreds of them in a gang , carrying with them the product of their grounds ...
... drinking , gambling , or in the company of lewd mongrel women . Sunday is the greatest market day ; the negroes from all parts of the country flock to town , hundreds of them in a gang , carrying with them the product of their grounds ...
الصفحة 79
... drinking , over- feers and book - keepers live very well ; they all mess together ; nor is there such distinction ob- served among them as in the West India Islands . The meanest class of adventurers succeed beft in the planting line ...
... drinking , over- feers and book - keepers live very well ; they all mess together ; nor is there such distinction ob- served among them as in the West India Islands . The meanest class of adventurers succeed beft in the planting line ...
الصفحة 96
... drinks the King , as a signal for the book - keeper to depart ; he returns about five or fix o'clock to see the stock fed , and is kept constantly busy about one thing or another till past eight ; he then gets his supper , and goes to ...
... drinks the King , as a signal for the book - keeper to depart ; he returns about five or fix o'clock to see the stock fed , and is kept constantly busy about one thing or another till past eight ; he then gets his supper , and goes to ...
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