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 Edition |
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... died like rotten sheep at St. Juan , and were so fickly at the last , that they were not able to bury each other ; and those lingering , saw their enter rotten 1 E 3 fellow creatures , friends and acquantance , daily devoured by.
... died like rotten sheep at St. Juan , and were so fickly at the last , that they were not able to bury each other ; and those lingering , saw their enter rotten 1 E 3 fellow creatures , friends and acquantance , daily devoured by.
الصفحة 62
fellow creatures , friends and acquantance , daily devoured by the carion crows ; so that out of fifteen hundred volunteers , only eighteen or twenty returned to tell the doleful tale ; the troops fared almost as bad .
fellow creatures , friends and acquantance , daily devoured by the carion crows ; so that out of fifteen hundred volunteers , only eighteen or twenty returned to tell the doleful tale ; the troops fared almost as bad .
الصفحة 67
Jews are very remarkable ; there is something curiously ill - looking in their tawny features I once failed from Charlestown with a Jew pedlar , and several other passengers ; a copy of the Jews letter to his friend having fallen in my ...
Jews are very remarkable ; there is something curiously ill - looking in their tawny features I once failed from Charlestown with a Jew pedlar , and several other passengers ; a copy of the Jews letter to his friend having fallen in my ...
الصفحة 69
Where , if I succeed , I will settle content , " Till I muster as much as I gambled and spent ; If not , to Jamaica I shortly will go ; Where I'll meet a rich friend , Alexander Lindo . My compliments to my sweet cousins and nieces ...
Where , if I succeed , I will settle content , " Till I muster as much as I gambled and spent ; If not , to Jamaica I shortly will go ; Where I'll meet a rich friend , Alexander Lindo . My compliments to my sweet cousins and nieces ...
الصفحة 70
When a man is appointed'executor , he gets two or three of his own friends to appraise the estate ... by those heirs who may be far away , and may not hear of their friend's death for several years ; or he brings it tu fale , after ...
When a man is appointed'executor , he gets two or three of his own friends to appraise the estate ... by those heirs who may be far away , and may not hear of their friend's death for several years ; or he brings it tu fale , after ...
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almoſt alſo appear attend attorney beſt better book-keepers buſineſs called canes carry cattle cent commonly corn cowſkin Creole cure drink eight eſtate eyes favour feet field firſt five follows fond four frequently friends gentlemen give ground hands heart hero himſelf houſe human hundred ignorant iſland Jamaica juſtice keep kind known ladies leaſt liquor live manager manner maſter means merchants mind miſs Mongrel morning moſt muſt nature Naves negroes never night obliged obſerve once overſeers pain particularly perſon plantation planting pleaſe poor reſpect ſame ſay ſee ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall ſome ſoon ſtock ſuch ſugar taken themſelves theſe thing thoſe thouſand till town turn uſe waſhed Weſt Indies whole wine wiſh women woods young yourſelf