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 35
... fame manner , fo that a ftranger or drunken man , of a dark night , unless he walks in the middle of the street , is liable to get his bones broke ; the streets are fandy , and when it blows ftrong the duft rarifies fo abundantly , that ...
... fame manner , fo that a ftranger or drunken man , of a dark night , unless he walks in the middle of the street , is liable to get his bones broke ; the streets are fandy , and when it blows ftrong the duft rarifies fo abundantly , that ...
الصفحة 39
... fame day a plantation was re- moved more than a mile from its former fituation . In confequence of fuch just and infcrutable judg- ments of the creator , and judge of heaven and earth , for their manifold fins and wickedness , an act ...
... fame day a plantation was re- moved more than a mile from its former fituation . In confequence of fuch just and infcrutable judg- ments of the creator , and judge of heaven and earth , for their manifold fins and wickedness , an act ...
الصفحة 40
... fame effect as foap in washing . The mangrove , which grows in marshy places clofe to the fea , upon the roots of which oyfters of a delicate and delicious flavour grow ; the manchioneal tree , the wood of which , though valuable and ...
... fame effect as foap in washing . The mangrove , which grows in marshy places clofe to the fea , upon the roots of which oyfters of a delicate and delicious flavour grow ; the manchioneal tree , the wood of which , though valuable and ...
الصفحة 44
... fame , two in a row , and co- vered lightly with part of the bank . If feasonable rains happen , they will fprout up in a few days from every joint , fomething like young grafs ; in about three or four weeks afterwards the negroes weed ...
... fame , two in a row , and co- vered lightly with part of the bank . If feasonable rains happen , they will fprout up in a few days from every joint , fomething like young grafs ; in about three or four weeks afterwards the negroes weed ...
الصفحة 46
... fame predicament . I fay , when all thefe , and many other matters , are not con- fidered of and prepared in time , if the canes are ripe , and dry weather enfues , they will turn red , or ( as they fay ) get burnt ; after which ...
... fame predicament . I fay , when all thefe , and many other matters , are not con- fidered of and prepared in time , if the canes are ripe , and dry weather enfues , they will turn red , or ( as they fay ) get burnt ; after which ...
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