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 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 150 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 150 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 wishes 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 wishes was only to " 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 ...
الصفحة 128
... fometime in the country , get yourself introduced by fome friendly ac- quaintance ; the affectation of these gipfies will difpel care , and make you laugh heartily ; befides , you will have opportunities of feeing and getting acquainted ...
... fometime in the country , get yourself introduced by fome friendly ac- quaintance ; the affectation of these gipfies will difpel care , and make you laugh heartily ; befides , you will have opportunities of feeing and getting acquainted ...
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