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 43
is marked at every seven or eight feet with a bit of coloured rag , at every one of which a peg is stuck in the ground ( a number of pegs about two feet long are prepared for this purpose ) . The liners having marked the first row ...
is marked at every seven or eight feet with a bit of coloured rag , at every one of which a peg is stuck in the ground ( a number of pegs about two feet long are prepared for this purpose ) . The liners having marked the first row ...
الصفحة 47
... which extends to the utmost centre of the roof , where it is steadied by an iron axle , and having six or eight long shafts or arms morriced therein , which extend to the circumference of the roof ; the cattle or mules being chained ...
... which extends to the utmost centre of the roof , where it is steadied by an iron axle , and having six or eight long shafts or arms morriced therein , which extend to the circumference of the roof ; the cattle or mules being chained ...
الصفحة 51
... sleep out of the twenty - four : when it was my weekly turn to go to bed nightly at eight or nine o'clock , P. M. I was roused with the dreadful alarm of uc spell's called maffa , ” at high twelve , and obliged to sit up until eight ...
... sleep out of the twenty - four : when it was my weekly turn to go to bed nightly at eight or nine o'clock , P. M. I was roused with the dreadful alarm of uc spell's called maffa , ” at high twelve , and obliged to sit up until eight ...
الصفحة 53
Eight per cent . of molasses , thirty per cent . of skimmings , thirty per cent . of lees , and thirtytwo per cent . of water , will , if set pure and cool as I have mentioned , ferment in a few hours , and be ready to distill in three ...
Eight per cent . of molasses , thirty per cent . of skimmings , thirty per cent . of lees , and thirtytwo per cent . of water , will , if set pure and cool as I have mentioned , ferment in a few hours , and be ready to distill in three ...
الصفحة 55
... then if molasses be thrown into a cistern until it is eight of those parts deep , confequently , let it be ever so large , that is eight per cent .; again , if skimmings be put in until it is thirty - eight parts deep , that is ...
... then if molasses be thrown into a cistern until it is eight of those parts deep , confequently , let it be ever so large , that is eight per cent .; again , if skimmings be put in until it is thirty - eight parts deep , that is ...
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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