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 64
... are very precarious ; I have known falt provifions to fell at one hundred and fifty per cent . profit one week , and the fame fold again in the the course of a few weeks afterwards for lefs than 64 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... are very precarious ; I have known falt provifions to fell at one hundred and fifty per cent . profit one week , and the fame fold again in the the course of a few weeks afterwards for lefs than 64 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 65
... fame ; thefe forefkin- clipped fcoundrels have clipped and fweated almoft all the coin , fo that every unmilled piece of gold is weighed and wrapped in paper , with the weight and value endorsed ; -hear what Jeremiah fays of them ...
... fame ; thefe forefkin- clipped fcoundrels have clipped and fweated almoft all the coin , fo that every unmilled piece of gold is weighed and wrapped in paper , with the weight and value endorsed ; -hear what Jeremiah fays of them ...
الصفحة 75
... fame ship from Clarendon - hall 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 ...
... fame ship from Clarendon - hall 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 ...
الصفحة 86
... fame ; for if that food on which two , or three , meagre animals barely exift was given to one , it might be fuf- ficient to fatten it ; hence , if that foil on which poor canes and fpindly corn grow at once , was allotted to canes or ...
... fame ; for if that food on which two , or three , meagre animals barely exift was given to one , it might be fuf- ficient to fatten it ; hence , if that foil on which poor canes and fpindly corn grow at once , was allotted to canes or ...
الصفحة 88
... fame gang with the ftout and healthy , and to make them keep up their rows alike ; and when any of those mife- rable , and probably half - ftarved wretches lag , to infift on their black deputies to cut and man- gle their shrivelled ...
... fame gang with the ftout and healthy , and to make them keep up their rows alike ; and when any of those mife- rable , and probably half - ftarved wretches lag , to infift on their black deputies to cut and man- gle their shrivelled ...
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