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 32
Think not of heaven , or hell , or God , above ; To excess and vice , which they at home might fhun , There day and night unguardedly they run , Till fad disorders and attendants vile , Of pain and anguish , grievously they feel ...
Think not of heaven , or hell , or God , above ; To excess and vice , which they at home might fhun , There day and night unguardedly they run , Till fad disorders and attendants vile , Of pain and anguish , grievously they feel ...
الصفحة 43
There is little or no difficulty in lining level ground ; but hills require some care and pains ; for the holes must be dug in such a manner , that after rains every part may retain an equal share of moisture ; if the holes were ftrait ...
There is little or no difficulty in lining level ground ; but hills require some care and pains ; for the holes must be dug in such a manner , that after rains every part may retain an equal share of moisture ; if the holes were ftrait ...
الصفحة 44
... it will not require manure ; but if otherwise , it must be improved ; and this part of plantership is very troublesome ; for procuring and making manure requires vast labour and pains ; there must be cattle penns contiguous to every ...
... it will not require manure ; but if otherwise , it must be improved ; and this part of plantership is very troublesome ; for procuring and making manure requires vast labour and pains ; there must be cattle penns contiguous to every ...
الصفحة 49
c . are quite simple ; that any man may get knowledge of these , without exposing his conftitution to the menial , coilsome , and painful drudgeries of an overseer's life , for three , four , or five years : He may attempt it , -- but ...
c . are quite simple ; that any man may get knowledge of these , without exposing his conftitution to the menial , coilsome , and painful drudgeries of an overseer's life , for three , four , or five years : He may attempt it , -- but ...
الصفحة 68
Now keen little Isaac ! David , or Saul ; Or , wise little Solomon , wisest of all ! Again , he's a pedlar ! a Christ - killing Jew ! Nay , Random took pains to lible me too ; Such barbarous redicule hurted me fore , ' Till we came to ...
Now keen little Isaac ! David , or Saul ; Or , wise little Solomon , wisest of all ! Again , he's a pedlar ! a Christ - killing Jew ! Nay , Random took pains to lible me too ; Such barbarous redicule hurted me fore , ' Till we came to ...
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