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 79
... themselves and their book- keepers ; befides , the proprietors furnish them yearly with falt - beef , Port , butter , flour , fplic pease , barley , & c . and fometimes with porter , cheese , and hams ; the eftates fupply them with ...
... themselves and their book- keepers ; befides , the proprietors furnish them yearly with falt - beef , Port , butter , flour , fplic pease , barley , & c . and fometimes with porter , cheese , and hams ; the eftates fupply them with ...
الصفحة 93
... themselves ; in those islands any man may get an overfeer's birth ( called a management ) through intereft ; in Jamaica it is . not fo ; for I never knew an overfeer there who did not ferve at least two or three years , ( fave only ...
... themselves ; in those islands any man may get an overfeer's birth ( called a management ) through intereft ; in Jamaica it is . not fo ; for I never knew an overfeer there who did not ferve at least two or three years , ( fave only ...
الصفحة 94
... themselves , tell falfe ftories , which may gain fome credit ; fo that every movement will leffen him in his friend's opinion , and retard his fteps to preferment . If a man has friends he should not boast of them , nor tell every ...
... themselves , tell falfe ftories , which may gain fome credit ; fo that every movement will leffen him in his friend's opinion , and retard his fteps to preferment . If a man has friends he should not boast of them , nor tell every ...
الصفحة 97
... c . 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.
... c . 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 100
... themselves and lived more extrava- gant than men of fortune ; had their merchandize fold at vendue at the laft at less than first coft ; and by bad management and diffipation ruined themfelves and friends . From what I have faid , you ...
... themselves and lived more extrava- gant than men of fortune ; had their merchandize fold at vendue at the laft at less than first coft ; and by bad management and diffipation ruined themfelves and friends . From what I have faid , you ...
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