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 85
... hero , purchased horses , a kitterine , and fine clothes , and was foon honoured with the appellation of the beau planter ; in short , he was the prince and emperor of coxcombs , and was making a fortune rapidly , until an unlucky ...
... hero , purchased horses , a kitterine , and fine clothes , and was foon honoured with the appellation of the beau planter ; in short , he was the prince and emperor of coxcombs , and was making a fortune rapidly , until an unlucky ...
الصفحة 87
... 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 : the cabbage- headed gentleman in Kingstown was ...
... 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 : the cabbage- headed gentleman in Kingstown was ...
الصفحة 90
... hero ! From fultry toil and labour , I'm retir'd every day ; Or I vifit my next neighbour , And with his girl toy and play . Sometimes I just take a ride , Over the plantation wide ; Or at home I ftrut and ftride , A famous cowfkin hero ...
... hero ! From fultry toil and labour , I'm retir'd every day ; Or I vifit my next neighbour , And with his girl toy and play . Sometimes I just take a ride , Over the plantation wide ; Or at home I ftrut and ftride , A famous cowfkin hero ...
الصفحة 91
... hero ! I plant fields of Indian corn , Ay , and plains of Guinea grafs ; Pamper horfes night and morn , And indulge my favourite lass . When fol is blazing in the sphere , I fit coolly with my fair ; Or kifs and play , fo banish care ...
... hero ! I plant fields of Indian corn , Ay , and plains of Guinea grafs ; Pamper horfes night and morn , And indulge my favourite lass . When fol is blazing in the sphere , I fit coolly with my fair ; Or kifs and play , fo banish care ...
الصفحة 93
... hero's abufes , they did nothing for me at last , The ufual falary for a book - keeper in the coun- try , is £ 40 per annum , with board , washing and lodging , the fame as the overfeer ; in the wind- ward iflands , book - keepers are ...
... hero's abufes , they did nothing for me at last , The ufual falary for a book - keeper in the coun- try , is £ 40 per annum , with board , washing and lodging , the fame as the overfeer ; in the wind- ward iflands , book - keepers are ...
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