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 37
... town , is an elegant building ; op- pofite to which there is a pretty little square parade , railed round , where the guards are re- lieved every morning ; on the other fide of the parade , oppofite the king's house , there is a row of ...
... town , is an elegant building ; op- pofite to which there is a pretty little square parade , railed round , where the guards are re- lieved every morning ; on the other fide of the parade , oppofite the king's house , there is a row of ...
الصفحة 38
... town of Savana - la - Mar , and the whole county of Cornwall , were almoft deftroyed by an hurricane and heavy rains , Mina rofe about thirty feet high in fome places ; this I was convinced of after the flood abated , by observing part ...
... town of Savana - la - Mar , and the whole county of Cornwall , were almoft deftroyed by an hurricane and heavy rains , Mina rofe about thirty feet high in fome places ; this I was convinced of after the flood abated , by observing part ...
الصفحة 39
... towns and plantations , but whole parishes wafte , and hurry unprepared into eter- nity hundreds of our unhappy ... town , and anchor amongst the ruins of the houses ; the fame day a plantation was re- moved more than a mile from ...
... towns and plantations , but whole parishes wafte , and hurry unprepared into eter- nity hundreds of our unhappy ... town , and anchor amongst the ruins of the houses ; the fame day a plantation was re- moved more than a mile from ...
الصفحة 42
... towns , particularly in Kingstown , daily ; the butchers flaughter fometime before day ; and about eist or nine o'clock the markets are all over , and the provifions either fold or carried away . The fea and rivers abound with great ...
... towns , particularly in Kingstown , daily ; the butchers flaughter fometime before day ; and about eist or nine o'clock the markets are all over , and the provifions either fold or carried away . The fea and rivers abound with great ...
الصفحة 64
... town , Spanish Town , Montego Bay , & c . a few of whom are English and Irish , but ten times the number of Scotch ; they all in general live ele- gantly ; it is not thought strange for a peafant's fon from Glasgow , or Aberdeen , in ...
... town , Spanish Town , Montego Bay , & c . a few of whom are English and Irish , but ten times the number of Scotch ; they all in general live ele- gantly ; it is not thought strange for a peafant's fon from Glasgow , or Aberdeen , in ...
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affift alfo almoſt attend attorney bafe becauſe beſt book-keepers buſineſs cafe canes cattle Chriftian commonly confequence corn cowfkin hero Creole diſeaſes drink eftate eſtate expence faid falary falt fame feven feveral fhall fhew fhould fickly filk filly finging fkimmings flaves fmall fome fomething fometimes fond foon friends ftrength ftrong fubjects fuch fufficient fugar Fungee fuppofe fupport fweet gentlemen grafs Great-Britain himſelf hogfheads honeft horfes houfe houſe hundred iſland Jamaica juftice keep laft leaft leaſt liquor maffa mafter mauby merchants mifs moft Mongrel Montego Bay morning moſt muft Mulatto muſt neceffary negroes never night obferve occafions overfeers paffing paffions perfon plantation planter pleafing pleaſe poffible poor puncheon Quadroon reſpect ſay ſeveral ſhall ſmall ſome ſpeak ſtock ſtores ſuch tajo thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand uſe Weft wenches Weſt Indies whilft wine women young yourſelf