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 58
... both will amount to 33601. fterling ; from which , deducting the annual expence , the remainder is 480l . in favour of the planter ; which is by no means equal to the rifque he runs of hurricanes , droughts , & c .
... both will amount to 33601. fterling ; from which , deducting the annual expence , the remainder is 480l . in favour of the planter ; which is by no means equal to the rifque he runs of hurricanes , droughts , & c .
الصفحة 60
... whofe noble fouls fcorn to practise base means to enrich themselves ; I muft obferve that all ranks and denominations of people are more friendly , kindly , and hofpitable , than in colder countries . I believe warm climates expand ...
... whofe noble fouls fcorn to practise base means to enrich themselves ; I muft obferve that all ranks and denominations of people are more friendly , kindly , and hofpitable , than in colder countries . I believe warm climates expand ...
الصفحة 61
... to enter as volunteers ; his mean manoeuvre , after he had collected them all together , in remaining behind ... and new rum , by which means they died like rotten fheep at St. Juan , and were fo fickly at the laft , that they were ...
... to enter as volunteers ; his mean manoeuvre , after he had collected them all together , in remaining behind ... and new rum , by which means they died like rotten fheep at St. Juan , and were fo fickly at the laft , that they were ...
الصفحة 65
These Chrift - killing dogs exert every base means to impofe upon Chriftians ; even their children are trained to villainy , keep pedling stands in the ftreets from morning until night , and are keen , cunning little fharpers .
These Chrift - killing dogs exert every base means to impofe upon Chriftians ; even their children are trained to villainy , keep pedling stands in the ftreets from morning until night , and are keen , cunning little fharpers .
الصفحة 66
... fo that in a very few years the pooreft wandering Jerufalemite will accumulate wealth ; they all live miferably mean upon planting , and some trash of damaged herrings , and other faltfish , until they get independent in the world .
... fo that in a very few years the pooreft wandering Jerufalemite will accumulate wealth ; they all live miferably mean upon planting , and some trash of damaged herrings , and other faltfish , until they get independent in the world .
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