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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الصفحة 36
... superbly decorated in fineries ; the spoils of war , plundered from infar tuated tars ; this is quite common ; nay , people of every rank and denomination , to their shame , devote the fabbaths to every kind of vice and dirsipation ...
... superbly decorated in fineries ; the spoils of war , plundered from infar tuated tars ; this is quite common ; nay , people of every rank and denomination , to their shame , devote the fabbaths to every kind of vice and dirsipation ...
الصفحة 41
... and doves of various kinds : the mournful cooing of the latter thrills most charmingly through the ears . ... shot a fat cattle of this kind , and frequently wild hogs ; the latter are excellent when barbacued maroon fashion .
... and doves of various kinds : the mournful cooing of the latter thrills most charmingly through the ears . ... shot a fat cattle of this kind , and frequently wild hogs ; the latter are excellent when barbacued maroon fashion .
الصفحة 59
A cole will sell for 30 , 40 , 50 , or bol . an ox for 201. a fat sheep for 40s . and after the first four or five years , I should fuppofe a penn of this kind would annually have E 2 forty forty colts , forty oxen , and one hundred ...
A cole will sell for 30 , 40 , 50 , or bol . an ox for 201. a fat sheep for 40s . and after the first four or five years , I should fuppofe a penn of this kind would annually have E 2 forty forty colts , forty oxen , and one hundred ...
الصفحة 62
... gentleman of this kind in St. James ' parih ; the gate being locked , I knocked several times ; but how great was my surprize when a musket ball came whistling by my ears ; a negroe came running to me , and said , “ Maffa will shoot ...
... gentleman of this kind in St. James ' parih ; the gate being locked , I knocked several times ; but how great was my surprize when a musket ball came whistling by my ears ; a negroe came running to me , and said , “ Maffa will shoot ...
الصفحة 71
... with the neighbouring managers , or spent induftriously attentive to his duty ; nor should he bu deceived by clean intervals , pleasant walks , or artificial work of any kind ; he should walk across and through the cane pieces all ...
... with the neighbouring managers , or spent induftriously attentive to his duty ; nor should he bu deceived by clean intervals , pleasant walks , or artificial work of any kind ; he should walk across and through the cane pieces all ...
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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