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 60
J. B. Moreton. forty colts , forty oxen , and one hundred fheep at least to dispose of , which would amount to more than 2000l . and would well reward the induf- trious grazier . There are fome fine penns in the parish of St. Ann's ...
J. B. Moreton. forty colts , forty oxen , and one hundred fheep at least to dispose of , which would amount to more than 2000l . and would well reward the induf- trious grazier . There are fome fine penns in the parish of St. Ann's ...
الصفحة 61
... hundred overfeers , clerks , and book - keepers , to enter as volunteers ; his mean manœuvre , after he had collected them all together , in remaining behind ; his com- bination with griping , pedling merchants , in furnishing the ...
... hundred overfeers , clerks , and book - keepers , to enter as volunteers ; his mean manœuvre , after he had collected them all together , in remaining behind ; his com- bination with griping , pedling merchants , in furnishing the ...
الصفحة 62
... hundred volunteers , only eighteen or twenty returned to tell the doleful tale ; the troops fared almost as bad . Governor Campbell furprisingly gained the love and affection of the people ; he put the island in a proper ftate of ...
... hundred volunteers , only eighteen or twenty returned to tell the doleful tale ; the troops fared almost as bad . Governor Campbell furprisingly gained the love and affection of the people ; he put the island in a proper ftate of ...
الصفحة 64
... The markets are very precarious ; I have known falt provifions to fell at one hundred and fifty per cent . profit one week , and the fame fold again in the the course of a few weeks afterwards for lefs than 64 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... The markets are very precarious ; I have known falt provifions to fell at one hundred and fifty per cent . profit one week , and the fame fold again in the the course of a few weeks afterwards for lefs than 64 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 67
... hundred per cent . The first of December , I think , was the day , That I fet off from Charlestown for Cape Françoise , In company with monfieurs Quaver and Quiver , ( Two men of fortune , most noble and clever ) ; Likewife Mr. Randum ...
... hundred per cent . The first of December , I think , was the day , That I fet off from Charlestown for Cape Françoise , In company with monfieurs Quaver and Quiver , ( Two men of fortune , most noble and clever ) ; Likewife Mr. Randum ...
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