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 56
... Those who wish to have pure good rum for their own ufe , ( fuch as managers , because they loofe nothing by it ) rectify even Jamaica rum , by putting two puncheons in the ftill , mixing it with water and diftilling it over again ; the ...
... Those who wish to have pure good rum for their own ufe , ( fuch as managers , because they loofe nothing by it ) rectify even Jamaica rum , by putting two puncheons in the ftill , mixing it with water and diftilling it over again ; the ...
الصفحة 60
... those torrid regions , fuccessful knaves , who by cunning , fraud , and deceit , are elevated daily from the dunghill to the fenate , which I fhall hereafter fpeak of ; and it commonly happens that fuch are more refpected than men of ...
... those torrid regions , fuccessful knaves , who by cunning , fraud , and deceit , are elevated daily from the dunghill to the fenate , which I fhall hereafter fpeak of ; and it commonly happens that fuch are more refpected than men of ...
الصفحة 78
... those nights in difagreeable flumbers , wrecked with jealousy and torture . It is very amazing indeed to think how fur- prisingly nature operates through every pulse and vein of those who are born and nurtured beneath the torrid zone ...
... those nights in difagreeable flumbers , wrecked with jealousy and torture . It is very amazing indeed to think how fur- prisingly nature operates through every pulse and vein of those who are born and nurtured beneath the torrid zone ...
الصفحة 91
... those who do , only fhine away for a little time , « great in their crimes , " and go off in a ftink , like the fnuff of a candle . r Some years ago the West Indies fuited 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 fnuff of a candle . r Some years ago the West Indies fuited 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 ...
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