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 157
... fometimes imagined they were on fprings or hinges , from the hips downwards ; whoever is most active and expert at wriggling , is reputed the best dancer . You will find amongst them many beautiful young creatures ; fo that you cannot ...
... fometimes imagined they were on fprings or hinges , from the hips downwards ; whoever is most active and expert at wriggling , is reputed the best dancer . You will find amongst them many beautiful young creatures ; fo that you cannot ...
الصفحة 162
... fometimes under their beds ; they are extremely fuperftitious , and firmly believe that the ghofts of their dead haunt the plantations for a long time after their death : fo pofitive are they in this belief that they often , when ...
... fometimes under their beds ; they are extremely fuperftitious , and firmly believe that the ghofts of their dead haunt the plantations for a long time after their death : fo pofitive are they in this belief that they often , when ...
الصفحة 163
J. B. Moreton. heavy to be carried by men ; fo that they fometimes take a whole night to carry and inter a corpfe , ftraining themselves , feemingly , as much as a few failors at heaving up a best bower . One thing more : I particularly ...
J. B. Moreton. heavy to be carried by men ; fo that they fometimes take a whole night to carry and inter a corpfe , ftraining themselves , feemingly , as much as a few failors at heaving up a best bower . One thing more : I particularly ...
الصفحة 176
... fometimes they drefs themfelves like gentlemen of fashion ; other times , like country bumpkins , to fuit the different companies they mix with : this commonly happens in large towns or cities , where they may frequent different Taverns ...
... fometimes they drefs themfelves like gentlemen of fashion ; other times , like country bumpkins , to fuit the different companies they mix with : this commonly happens in large towns or cities , where they may frequent different Taverns ...
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