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 78
... those countries frigid lovers trifle away half their time in ftiff formalities and religious ceremonies , whilst chil- dren of the fun , fostered and invigorated beneath his cæleftial rays , eternal votaries to the revels of Bacchus and ...
... those countries frigid lovers trifle away half their time in ftiff formalities and religious ceremonies , whilst chil- dren of the fun , fostered and invigorated beneath his cæleftial rays , eternal votaries to the revels of Bacchus and ...
الصفحة 88
... those mife- rable , and probably half - ftarved wretches lag , to infift on their black deputies to cut and man- gle their shrivelled skins , and torture them from morning ' till night , in like manner as if they were mules or oxen ...
... those mife- rable , and probably half - ftarved wretches lag , to infift on their black deputies to cut and man- gle their shrivelled skins , and torture them from morning ' till night , in like manner as if they were mules or oxen ...
الصفحة 91
... those who do , only fhine away for a little time , " great in their crimes , " and go off in a ftink , like the snuff of a candle . Some years ago the West Indies suited poor adventurers vaftly better than at prefent ; formerly ...
... those who do , only fhine away for a little time , " great in their crimes , " and go off in a ftink , like the snuff of a candle . Some years ago the West Indies suited poor adventurers vaftly better than at prefent ; formerly ...
الصفحة 93
... 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 Little Confequence ...
... 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 Little Confequence ...
الصفحة 104
... Those who are born in the country are called Creoles , the men in general , save only those who drink ftrong liquors to excefs , are of a fickly , pale , yellowish complexion , meagre , weak , and emaciated emaciated to appearance ...
... Those who are born in the country are called Creoles , the men in general , save only those who drink ftrong liquors to excefs , are of a fickly , pale , yellowish complexion , meagre , weak , and emaciated emaciated to appearance ...
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