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 95
... obliged to do it . 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 ...
... obliged to do it . 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 ...
الصفحة 96
... obliged to fuperintend every domeftic tranfaction : when a fheep or a hog is killed , he muft ftand by and direct a negroe how to falt it ; and as it is very difficult to preferve meat three or four days , the best method I ever could ...
... obliged to fuperintend every domeftic tranfaction : when a fheep or a hog is killed , he muft ftand by and direct a negroe how to falt it ; and as it is very difficult to preferve meat three or four days , the best method I ever could ...
الصفحة 97
... As merchants in general are batchelors , they dine at ordinaries ; their clerks are obliged to find themselves in board , washing , and fometimes lodging . lodging ; and though one gets a falary of 1501 IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 97.
... As merchants in general are batchelors , they dine at ordinaries ; their clerks are obliged to find themselves in board , washing , and fometimes lodging . lodging ; and though one gets a falary of 1501 IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 97.
الصفحة 104
... obliged to fay that there are too many of this kind , not only in Jamaica , but all over the West Indies . " When the righteous are in authority , the people rejoice ; but when the wicked beareth rule , the people murmur . " From all I ...
... obliged to fay that there are too many of this kind , not only in Jamaica , but all over the West Indies . " When the righteous are in authority , the people rejoice ; but when the wicked beareth rule , the people murmur . " From all I ...
الصفحة 113
... obliging footmen and waiters for ever . But this great and affected nicety foon wears off , till they return to their original creo- lism . " Send a goofe to Dover , " And a goofe it will come over . " Creole fifters living in the ...
... obliging footmen and waiters for ever . But this great and affected nicety foon wears off , till they return to their original creo- lism . " Send a goofe to Dover , " And a goofe it will come over . " Creole fifters living in the ...
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