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 85
... he was remarkably polite and attentive in getting them fprightly bedfellows , for he had a feraglio of fine wenches at command , and was confidered the most obliging , fimple , good natured , pimple fellow exifting .
... he was remarkably polite and attentive in getting them fprightly bedfellows , for he had a feraglio of fine wenches at command , and was confidered the most obliging , fimple , good natured , pimple fellow exifting .
الصفحة 95
Turkies are the most difficult kind to raise ; at first they require great care and attention , ' till they get ftrong and grow to perchers ; a small grain of bird - pepper , that grows in the country , given to each as foon as out of ...
Turkies are the most difficult kind to raise ; at first they require great care and attention , ' till they get ftrong and grow to perchers ; a small grain of bird - pepper , that grows in the country , given to each as foon as out of ...
الصفحة 101
... chosen a representative of the assembly : I have known the most illiterate , rude , aukward tradefmen , fuch as carpenters , bricklayers , mill - wrights , tinkers , taylors , fhavers or barbers , legiflators in the West Indies .
... chosen a representative of the assembly : I have known the most illiterate , rude , aukward tradefmen , fuch as carpenters , bricklayers , mill - wrights , tinkers , taylors , fhavers or barbers , legiflators in the West Indies .
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When thofe fpurious cubs , having no trades , fquander what their infatuated parents bequeathed them , they turn out the most thieving pilfering vagrants ; for never having practifed any industry , but beggared themselves by their ...
When thofe fpurious cubs , having no trades , fquander what their infatuated parents bequeathed them , they turn out the most thieving pilfering vagrants ; for never having practifed any industry , but beggared themselves by their ...
الصفحة 129
inland : groups of lamb - like laffes , decorated most curiously in filks , muflins and chintz , ornamented with ribbands , fafhes and coftly trinkets , fhining to the greatest advantage ; there you may , if inclined for fport , dance ...
inland : groups of lamb - like laffes , decorated most curiously in filks , muflins and chintz , ornamented with ribbands , fafhes and coftly trinkets , fhining to the greatest advantage ; there you may , if inclined for fport , dance ...
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