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 44
... fmall weakly gang of negroes carry the dung on boards or baskets on their heads , and fpread it thinly in the holes . Mountainous plantations require more cultiva- tion , manure and labour , than others . The dung being spread in the ...
... fmall weakly gang of negroes carry the dung on boards or baskets on their heads , and fpread it thinly in the holes . Mountainous plantations require more cultiva- tion , manure and labour , than others . The dung being spread in the ...
الصفحة 47
... fmall pieces of metal about the fize and shape of whipping - tops , called capoufes ; the main or middle roller , being filled with a long bull - tree , which extends to the utmoft centre of the roof , where it is steadied by an iron ...
... fmall pieces of metal about the fize and shape of whipping - tops , called capoufes ; the main or middle roller , being filled with a long bull - tree , which extends to the utmoft centre of the roof , where it is steadied by an iron ...
الصفحة 48
... fmall quantity of Briftol lime and lye - water , the black boiler cries out , " Fia ! gran - coppa ! " i . e . Fire ! grand copper ! at which vociferation , a blazing fire is inftantly put to the grand copper , by the fire - man who at ...
... fmall quantity of Briftol lime and lye - water , the black boiler cries out , " Fia ! gran - coppa ! " i . e . Fire ! grand copper ! at which vociferation , a blazing fire is inftantly put to the grand copper , by the fire - man who at ...
الصفحة 66
... - fon is involved in a law - fuit likely to go against him for want of a material evidence , he may for a fmall premium get a Jew to attend the courts , whe who being properly inftructed , will swear to , and 66 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... - fon is involved in a law - fuit likely to go against him for want of a material evidence , he may for a fmall premium get a Jew to attend the courts , whe who being properly inftructed , will swear to , and 66 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 72
... fmall fum of money to a planter in diftrefs , may get the attorneyship of his plantation , and a mortgage thereon by way of fecurity ; and it often happens in the end , that the mortgagee poffeffes himself of the whole eftate , whilst ...
... fmall fum of money to a planter in diftrefs , may get the attorneyship of his plantation , and a mortgage thereon by way of fecurity ; and it often happens in the end , that the mortgagee poffeffes himself of the whole eftate , whilst ...
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