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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J. B. Moreton. MANNERS AND CUSTOMS IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . MY DEAR FRIEND ! As SI understand you intend to go fhortly to Jamaica , and I prefume an entire stranger to the nature of that climate and the people thereof , 1 think it a ...
J. B. Moreton. MANNERS AND CUSTOMS IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . MY DEAR FRIEND ! As SI understand you intend to go fhortly to Jamaica , and I prefume an entire stranger to the nature of that climate and the people thereof , 1 think it a ...
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... Friend and Pitcher . How happy is the doctor's fate In that fweet clime : he once gets footing , Ador'd by all on each eftate , Enjoys his girl , and wants for nothing . His pills and potions coft not much , Tho ' all his fkill is a ...
... Friend and Pitcher . How happy is the doctor's fate In that fweet clime : he once gets footing , Ador'd by all on each eftate , Enjoys his girl , and wants for nothing . His pills and potions coft not much , Tho ' all his fkill is a ...
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... at once to die , " He's past all cure " -a putrid lump was I ! A feeling friend , with thoughtless simple art , Did wondrous health and strength to me impart . Quacks , ! 1 Quacks , in general , make as free with 20 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... at once to die , " He's past all cure " -a putrid lump was I ! A feeling friend , with thoughtless simple art , Did wondrous health and strength to me impart . Quacks , ! 1 Quacks , in general , make as free with 20 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
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... friends alfo , fo that it never cofts him any thing for board , washing and lodging , corn , or grass . The common charge for each negroe , whether they are fick or well , is five fhillings yearly , befides the benefit of venereals ...
... friends alfo , fo that it never cofts him any thing for board , washing and lodging , corn , or grass . The common charge for each negroe , whether they are fick or well , is five fhillings yearly , befides the benefit of venereals ...
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... friends , is materially injured . He that would wish to be a planter , fhould attend the field from morning until night , obferve the nature of different foils , line the ground , keep a journal for his own in- ftruction , pay strict ...
... friends , is materially injured . He that would wish to be a planter , fhould attend the field from morning until night , obferve the nature of different foils , line the ground , keep a journal for his own in- ftruction , pay strict ...
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