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 51
... never got more than three or four hours fleep out of the twenty - four : when it was my weekly turn to go to bed nightly at eight or nine o'clock , P. M. I was roufed with the dreadful alarm of " fpell's called maffa , " at high twelve ...
... never got more than three or four hours fleep out of the twenty - four : when it was my weekly turn to go to bed nightly at eight or nine o'clock , P. M. I was roufed with the dreadful alarm of " fpell's called maffa , " at high twelve ...
الصفحة 64
... never knew a raw lad from that country , who had not a letter of recommendation to his Excellency , or to fome Mac or other ; upon the delivery of which , he was taken notice of , and immediately put into fome ' business , and in fome ...
... never knew a raw lad from that country , who had not a letter of recommendation to his Excellency , or to fome Mac or other ; upon the delivery of which , he was taken notice of , and immediately put into fome ' business , and in fome ...
الصفحة 75
... never will retrieve again ; and though we have made only an hundred hogf- heads this year , I hope we fhall make a better crop next year ; you will pleafe to obferve , that the long continuance of the draught last year , F 2 and ...
... never will retrieve again ; and though we have made only an hundred hogf- heads this year , I hope we fhall make a better crop next year ; you will pleafe to obferve , that the long continuance of the draught last year , F 2 and ...
الصفحة 76
... never would be of any service to you ; they are old deformed creatures , of the Auranoutang fpecies , who I do not suppose have any fouls , therefore , as they are an incumbrance to the estate , I have ordered the manager to give them ...
... never would be of any service to you ; they are old deformed creatures , of the Auranoutang fpecies , who I do not suppose have any fouls , therefore , as they are an incumbrance to the estate , I have ordered the manager to give them ...
الصفحة 80
... never ex- pect to fucceed ; and tho ' the overfeer be ever fo vile a scoundrel , he must not find fault with him ; for fhould a vindictive fpirit , which com- monly rages in youth , tempt him to complain to the proprietor or attorney ...
... never ex- pect to fucceed ; and tho ' the overfeer be ever fo vile a scoundrel , he must not find fault with him ; for fhould a vindictive fpirit , which com- monly rages in youth , tempt him to complain to the proprietor or attorney ...
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