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 70
... eftate ; I do affure you , that many mighty men in councils and affemblies , all over the West Indies , have acquired all their greatness by fuch ignoble fchemes . " Such mighty heroes that were pigmies born , " Tempt not my envy , but ...
... eftate ; I do affure you , that many mighty men in councils and affemblies , all over the West Indies , have acquired all their greatness by fuch ignoble fchemes . " Such mighty heroes that were pigmies born , " Tempt not my envy , but ...
الصفحة 71
... eftate , flaves , cattle , mules , and other stock ; he should visit the boiling - house frequently ; ftand at the tack whole hours , at times , to fee how the boilers went on , and when they went wrong di- rect them and fet them right ...
... eftate , flaves , cattle , mules , and other stock ; he should visit the boiling - house frequently ; ftand at the tack whole hours , at times , to fee how the boilers went on , and when they went wrong di- rect them and fet them right ...
الصفحة 72
... eftate , whilst the mortgager reflects with horror on his extravagance and folly . It would be vaftly better for a planter , when diftreffed to answer any preffing demands which may be against him , to fell his eftate at once , or a ...
... eftate , whilst the mortgager reflects with horror on his extravagance and folly . It would be vaftly better for a planter , when diftreffed to answer any preffing demands which may be against him , to fell his eftate at once , or a ...
الصفحة 74
... eftate , per the Eliza , Captain Donally ; alfo , bill of la- ding for fifteen hogfheads from my own eftate , which you will difpofe of , and credit me for the net proceeds . I thought to have shipped forty hogfheads , but the heavy ...
... eftate , per the Eliza , Captain Donally ; alfo , bill of la- ding for fifteen hogfheads from my own eftate , which you will difpofe of , and credit me for the net proceeds . I thought to have shipped forty hogfheads , but the heavy ...
الصفحة 75
... eftate . You will please to order infurance accordingly . Mr. Sneaking Caution , the manager , tells me , that the cause of the fugars being fo dark , and not having fo good a grain as I would wifh , has been owing to the canes being ...
... eftate . You will please to order infurance accordingly . Mr. Sneaking Caution , the manager , tells me , that the cause of the fugars being fo dark , and not having fo good a grain as I would wifh , has been owing to the canes being ...
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