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 68
My falt - pork , and ground - nuts , will hardly pay freight ; My chinkapins , dry - fish , and herrings , I fear , Won't bring me first - coft : O what brought me here ! All merchandize now is at such a low rate , That , alass !
My falt - pork , and ground - nuts , will hardly pay freight ; My chinkapins , dry - fish , and herrings , I fear , Won't bring me first - coft : O what brought me here ! All merchandize now is at such a low rate , That , alass !
الصفحة 81
Men , from their first entrance into the West Indies , are taught to practice severities to the Naves ; their minds are impressed by their brother book - keepers , or others , with strange and cruel ideas of the nature of blacks ...
Men , from their first entrance into the West Indies , are taught to practice severities to the Naves ; their minds are impressed by their brother book - keepers , or others , with strange and cruel ideas of the nature of blacks ...
الصفحة 94
The first charge a book - keeper gets is that of the sheep , goats , swine , and poultry ( called the small stock ) with the keys of the corn , and other ftores ; he must be very particular in getting up early every morning to hasten to ...
The first charge a book - keeper gets is that of the sheep , goats , swine , and poultry ( called the small stock ) with the keys of the corn , and other ftores ; he must be very particular in getting up early every morning to hasten to ...
الصفحة 95
account of the increase and decrease of each kind , and must mark even the date on the eggs , so that he may see the oldest fet first . He must every morning enter in his book the number of each kind that are with egg , least the stock ...
account of the increase and decrease of each kind , and must mark even the date on the eggs , so that he may see the oldest fet first . He must every morning enter in his book the number of each kind that are with egg , least the stock ...
الصفحة 97
He commonly gives his first year's salary for a horse ; for though in the Windward INands gentlemen ride mules , it would be considered a difgrace in Jamaica for the poorest man to ride one ; his second year's salary goes to the doctors ...
He commonly gives his first year's salary for a horse ; for though in the Windward INands gentlemen ride mules , it would be considered a difgrace in Jamaica for the poorest man to ride one ; his second year's salary goes to the doctors ...
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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