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 91
I plant fields of Indian corn , Ay , and plains of Guinea grass ; Pamper horses night and morn , And indulge my favourite lafs . When sol is blazing in the sphere , I sit coolly with my Or kiss and play , so banish care , A famous ...
I plant fields of Indian corn , Ay , and plains of Guinea grass ; Pamper horses night and morn , And indulge my favourite lafs . When sol is blazing in the sphere , I sit coolly with my Or kiss and play , so banish care , A famous ...
الصفحة 94
... very particular in getting up early every morning to hasten to the field to call the list and return to feed the small stock , and to count them exactly ; he must keep an exact + account of the increase and decrease of each kind ,.
... very particular in getting up early every morning to hasten to the field to call the list and return to feed the small stock , and to count them exactly ; he must keep an exact + account of the increase and decrease of each kind ,.
الصفحة 96
About eight o'clock the book - keeper goes to breakfast , and afterwards gives out necessaries for dinner , and hastens to the field ' till twelve , at which time he returns - he dines , about one o'clock , -he sits at the foot of the ...
About eight o'clock the book - keeper goes to breakfast , and afterwards gives out necessaries for dinner , and hastens to the field ' till twelve , at which time he returns - he dines , about one o'clock , -he sits at the foot of the ...
الصفحة 97
A book - keeper must go round the corn field and cane pieces , to see if any are broken or stole ; he must be here and there and every where ; indeed the different parts of his duty are as various and progressive as the days in the year ...
A book - keeper must go round the corn field and cane pieces , to see if any are broken or stole ; he must be here and there and every where ; indeed the different parts of his duty are as various and progressive as the days in the year ...
الصفحة 105
... get me some mauby , mine head no ' tand good , It is quite usual for a Creole gentleman after dinner to send to the field for one of his favourite wenches , who is inNantly hurried home and conveyed to his chama * A fermented liquor ...
... get me some mauby , mine head no ' tand good , It is quite usual for a Creole gentleman after dinner to send to the field for one of his favourite wenches , who is inNantly hurried home and conveyed to his chama * A fermented liquor ...
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