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 32
... pain and anguish , grievously they feel ; Plung'd in disease , beyond all human cure , " Old , e'er of age , worn out e'er scarce mature . " Their puny offspring fhare disease also , And the infection catch in embryo ! Thus far I have ...
... pain and anguish , grievously they feel ; Plung'd in disease , beyond all human cure , " Old , e'er of age , worn out e'er scarce mature . " Their puny offspring fhare disease also , And the infection catch in embryo ! Thus far I have ...
الصفحة 43
... pains ; for the holes must be dug in fuch a manner , that after rains every part may retain an equal share of moisture ; if the holes were ftrait up and down , the canes would never come to perfection , but would parch with drought ...
... pains ; for the holes must be dug in fuch a manner , that after rains every part may retain an equal share of moisture ; if the holes were ftrait up and down , the canes would never come to perfection , but would parch with drought ...
الصفحة 44
... pains ; there must be cattle penns contiguous to every piece intended for holing , and a number of negroes , cattle , and wanes , employed for fe- veral weeks , carrying cane tops , grafs and vines to them . The cattle and mules are ...
... pains ; there must be cattle penns contiguous to every piece intended for holing , and a number of negroes , cattle , and wanes , employed for fe- veral weeks , carrying cane tops , grafs and vines to them . The cattle and mules are ...
الصفحة 49
... painful drudgeries of an overfeer's life , for three , four , or five years : He may attempt it , but how infignificant and auk- ward muft a man appear , who attempts or un- dertakes a bufinefs he knows nothing about ; he - may may ...
... painful drudgeries of an overfeer's life , for three , four , or five years : He may attempt it , but how infignificant and auk- ward muft a man appear , who attempts or un- dertakes a bufinefs he knows nothing about ; he - may may ...
الصفحة 68
... pains to lible me too ; Such barbarous redicule hurted me fore , ' Till we came to anchor , and I got a shore , But how fhall I alter the theme of my fong , To paint the fad fcene , how matters go on ; My heart it does jump , like a ...
... pains to lible me too ; Such barbarous redicule hurted me fore , ' Till we came to anchor , and I got a shore , But how fhall I alter the theme of my fong , To paint the fad fcene , how matters go on ; My heart it does jump , like a ...
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