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 78
... their few days and nights in diffipa- tions dear delightful downy lap , whilft African manners and cuftoms are native and congenial to their hearts ! I fhould I should have observed to you before , that he 78 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... their few days and nights in diffipa- tions dear delightful downy lap , whilft African manners and cuftoms are native and congenial to their hearts ! I fhould I should have observed to you before , that he 78 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 81
... hearts become callous to all tender feelings - which foften and dignify our nature ; the most infignificant Connought favage bumpkin , or filly Highland gauky , will foon learn to flog without mercy to fhew his authority ; but when fuch ...
... hearts become callous to all tender feelings - which foften and dignify our nature ; the most infignificant Connought favage bumpkin , or filly Highland gauky , will foon learn to flog without mercy to fhew his authority ; but when fuch ...
الصفحة 87
... heart ; but how miferably was this lofty cowfkin hero fallen in two days afterwards , upon receiving a letter directing him to give up charge of the plan- tation to the bearer , and to quit it immediately . Now , the real fact was this ...
... heart ; but how miferably was this lofty cowfkin hero fallen in two days afterwards , upon receiving a letter directing him to give up charge of the plan- tation to the bearer , and to quit it immediately . Now , the real fact was this ...
الصفحة 94
... heart . It is good to have friends , and bad to be too troublesome to them , but worfe to need their affiftance . The first charge a book - keeper gets is that of the sheep , goats , fwine , and poultry ( called the fmall stock ) with ...
... heart . It is good to have friends , and bad to be too troublesome to them , but worfe to need their affiftance . The first charge a book - keeper gets is that of the sheep , goats , fwine , and poultry ( called the fmall stock ) with ...
الصفحة 104
... heart . How odious muft men appear who are chosen out from among the reft to diftribute justice , when they are capable of corruption ? -and I am forry to be obliged to say that there are too many of this kind , not only in Jamaica ...
... heart . How odious muft men appear who are chosen out from among the reft to diftribute justice , when they are capable of corruption ? -and I am forry to be obliged to say that there are too many of this kind , not only in Jamaica ...
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affift alfo almoſt attend attorney bafe becauſe beſt book-keepers buſineſs cafe canes cattle Chriftian commonly confequence corn cowfkin hero Creole diſeaſes drink eftate eſtate expence faid falary falt fame feven feveral fhall fhew fhould fickly filk filly finging fkimmings flaves fmall fome fomething fometimes fond foon friends ftrength ftrong fubjects fuch fufficient fugar Fungee fuppofe fupport fweet gentlemen grafs Great-Britain himſelf hogfheads honeft horfes houfe houſe hundred iſland Jamaica juftice keep laft leaft leaſt liquor maffa mafter mauby merchants mifs moft Mongrel Montego Bay morning moſt muft Mulatto muſt neceffary negroes never night obferve occafions overfeers paffing paffions perfon plantation planter pleafing pleaſe poffible poor puncheon Quadroon reſpect ſay ſeveral ſhall ſmall ſome ſpeak ſtock ſtores ſuch tajo thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand uſe Weft wenches Weſt Indies whilft wine women young yourſelf