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 136
I fay that the colonies in the West Indies , for the fake of two luxuries which all the world might well dispense without , which are fugar and rum , I fay , that for the sake of these and some other trifling articles of commerce ...
I fay that the colonies in the West Indies , for the fake of two luxuries which all the world might well dispense without , which are fugar and rum , I fay , that for the sake of these and some other trifling articles of commerce ...
الصفحة 159
Their form of marriage is nothing more than that the parents or friends of both parties meet on these festival nights , and give confent that the amorous pair may be united as long as they like each other : -ten to one , not fo ...
Their form of marriage is nothing more than that the parents or friends of both parties meet on these festival nights , and give confent that the amorous pair may be united as long as they like each other : -ten to one , not fo ...
الصفحة 177
But when sharpers are numerous they form themselves into different parties , and have private fignals ; these honourable gentry promifcuoufly meet at gambling tables , feeming ftrangers to each other , where , if a man who is not ...
But when sharpers are numerous they form themselves into different parties , and have private fignals ; these honourable gentry promifcuoufly meet at gambling tables , feeming ftrangers to each other , where , if a man who is not ...
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