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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... fometime before day ; and about eit 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 and ...
... fometime before day ; and about eit 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 and ...
الصفحة 79
... fometimes with porter , cheese , and hams ; the eftates fupply them with vegetables , corn , fugar , rum , coffee , and chocolate ; fo that as to eating and drinking , overfeers and book - keepers live very well ; they all mefs together ...
... fometimes with porter , cheese , and hams ; the eftates fupply them with vegetables , corn , fugar , rum , coffee , and chocolate ; fo that as to eating and drinking , overfeers and book - keepers live very well ; they all mefs together ...
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
... fometimes honoured with importunities of this kind , and did not reject their offers ; as much as I could learn , the fummit of their wishes was only to " c please their inclinations , " ( as they fay in their fongs ) . Their ideas of ...
... fometimes honoured with importunities of this kind , and did not reject their offers ; as much as I could learn , the fummit of their wishes was only to " c please their inclinations , " ( as they fay in their fongs ) . Their ideas of ...
الصفحة 114
... fometimes through thickets of Guinea grafs fix or feven feet high , to pluck ftar apples , neefeberries , oranges , & c . & c . at the neighbouring gardens and orangeries ; and when the starry mantled night overspread her fable canopy ...
... fometimes through thickets of Guinea grafs fix or feven feet high , to pluck ftar apples , neefeberries , oranges , & c . & c . at the neighbouring gardens and orangeries ; and when the starry mantled night overspread her fable canopy ...
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