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
... the spoils of war , plundered from infatuated tars ; this is quite common ; nay , people of every rank and denomination , to their shame , devote the sabbaths to every kind of vice and disfipation ; driving like madmen in kitcerines ...
... the spoils of war , plundered from infatuated tars ; this is quite common ; nay , people of every rank and denomination , to their shame , devote the sabbaths to every kind of vice and disfipation ; driving like madmen in kitcerines ...
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 colt will sell for 30 , 40 , 50 , or bol . an ox for 201. a fac sheep for 405. and after the first four or five years , I should suppose a penn of this kind would annually have forty E 2 forty colts , forty oxen , and one hundred ...
A colt will sell for 30 , 40 , 50 , or bol . an ox for 201. a fac sheep for 405. and after the first four or five years , I should suppose a penn of this kind would annually have forty E 2 forty colts , forty oxen , and one hundred ...
الصفحة 62
... on an honorable gentleman of this kind in St. James ' parish ; 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 ...
... on an honorable gentleman of this kind in St. James ' parish ; 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 ...
الصفحة 71
... with the neighbouring managers , or spent induftriously attentive to his duty ; nor should he be 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 be 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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