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 41
... fometimes shot a fat cattle of this kind , and frequently wild hogs ; the latter are excellent when barbacued maroon fashion . The country is exceeding fer- tile , and produces abundance of fruit and vege- tables , fuch as citrons ...
... fometimes shot a fat cattle of this kind , and frequently wild hogs ; the latter are excellent when barbacued maroon fashion . The country is exceeding fer- tile , and produces abundance of fruit and vege- tables , fuch as citrons ...
الصفحة 42
... fometime before day ; and about eight or nine o'clock the markets are all over , and the provifions either fold or carried away . The fea and rivers abound with great variety of excellent fish . In wet weather there are plenty of duck ...
... fometime before day ; and about eight or nine o'clock the markets are all over , and the provifions either fold or carried away . The fea and rivers abound with great variety of excellent fish . In wet weather there are plenty of duck ...
الصفحة 79
... fometimes with porter , cheese , and hams ; the eftates fupply them with vegetables , corn , fugar , rum , coffee , and cho- colate ; fo that as to eating and drinking , over- feers and book - keepers live very well ; they all mefs ...
... fometimes with porter , cheese , and hams ; the eftates fupply them with vegetables , corn , fugar , rum , coffee , and cho- colate ; fo that as to eating and drinking , over- feers and book - keepers live very well ; they all mefs ...
الصفحة 97
... As merchants in general are batchelors , they dine at ordinaries ; their clerks are obliged to find themselves in board , washing , and fometimes lodging . lodging ; and though one gets a falary of 1501 IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 97.
... As merchants in general are batchelors , they dine at ordinaries ; their clerks are obliged to find themselves in board , washing , and fometimes lodging . lodging ; and though one gets a falary of 1501 IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 97.
الصفحة 110
... fome- times honoured with importunities of this kind , and did not reject their offers ; as much as I could learn , the fummit of their wifhes was only to please their inclinations , " ( as they fay in their fongs ) . Their ideas of ...
... fome- times honoured with importunities of this kind , and did not reject their offers ; as much as I could learn , the fummit of their wifhes was only to please their inclinations , " ( as they fay in their fongs ) . Their ideas of ...
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