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 92
... must not defpair of fuccefs , for you will have a chance as well as another . I fhall now en- deavour to point out to you the different grada- tions , in both the planting and mercantile lines , which young men commonly go through to ...
... must not defpair of fuccefs , for you will have a chance as well as another . I fhall now en- deavour to point out to you the different grada- tions , in both the planting and mercantile lines , which young men commonly go through to ...
الصفحة 93
... must board themselves ; in those islands any man may get an overfeer's birth ( called a management ) through intereft ; in Jamaica it is not fo ; for I never knew an overfeer there who did not ferve at least two or three years , ( fave ...
... must board themselves ; in those islands any man may get an overfeer's birth ( called a management ) through intereft ; in Jamaica it is not fo ; for I never knew an overfeer there who did not ferve at least two or three years , ( fave ...
الصفحة 94
... must be very particular in getting up early every morning to haften to the field to call the lift and return to feed the small stock , and to count them exactly ; he must keep an exact account account of the increase and decrease of ...
... must be very particular in getting up early every morning to haften to the field to call the lift and return to feed the small stock , and to count them exactly ; he must keep an exact account account of the increase and decrease of ...
الصفحة 95
J. B. Moreton. account of the increase and decrease of each kind , and must mark even the date on the eggs , fo that he may see the oldest set first . He muft every morning enter in his book the number of each kind that are with egg ...
J. B. Moreton. account of the increase and decrease of each kind , and must mark even the date on the eggs , fo that he may see the oldest set first . He muft every morning enter in his book the number of each kind that are with egg ...
الصفحة 97
... must go round the corn field and cane pieces , to fee if any are broken or ftole ; he must be here and there and every where ; in- deed the different parts of his duty are as various and progreffive as the days in the year . He commonly ...
... must go round the corn field and cane pieces , to fee if any are broken or ftole ; he must be here and there and every where ; in- deed the different parts of his duty are as various and progreffive as the days in the year . He commonly ...
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