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 82
... holes in wet weather , and to plant in drought ; and yet he always found excufes to palliate his bad conduct ; when the plants did not thrive , or were burning , he still exclaimed . against the elements for not reverting the feasons to ...
... holes in wet weather , and to plant in drought ; and yet he always found excufes to palliate his bad conduct ; when the plants did not thrive , or were burning , he still exclaimed . against the elements for not reverting the feasons to ...
الصفحة 96
... holes , or a basket , fup- ported by a few bricks , with a few gallons of wa- ter beneath ; the meat should be falted well with dry falt about two or three hours after it is killed , and laid on the falfe bottom , or basket , and pref ...
... holes , or a basket , fup- ported by a few bricks , with a few gallons of wa- ter beneath ; the meat should be falted well with dry falt about two or three hours after it is killed , and laid on the falfe bottom , or basket , and pref ...
الصفحة 155
... holes in it , in imitation of a fife ; an an herring - barrel , or tub , with fheep - fkins fubftituted for the heads , in imitation of a drum , called a gum- bay but fometimes more " grandy balls , " as they are called , are honoured ...
... holes in it , in imitation of a fife ; an an herring - barrel , or tub , with fheep - fkins fubftituted for the heads , in imitation of a drum , called a gum- bay but fometimes more " grandy balls , " as they are called , are honoured ...
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