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 51
... four : when it was my weekly turn to go to bed nightly at eight or nine o'clock , P. M. I was roufed with the dreadful alarm of " fpell's called maffa , " at high twelve , and obliged to fit up until eight or nine o'clock next night ...
... four : when it was my weekly turn to go to bed nightly at eight or nine o'clock , P. M. I was roufed with the dreadful alarm of " fpell's called maffa , " at high twelve , and obliged to fit up until eight or nine o'clock next night ...
الصفحة 52
If fkimmings remain ten or twelve hours unfet , they will turn ropy and spoil , after which , if they are fet , they will prevent the other fweets from yielding a due proportion of rum , and will fet the diftill - houfe foul ...
If fkimmings remain ten or twelve hours unfet , they will turn ropy and spoil , after which , if they are fet , they will prevent the other fweets from yielding a due proportion of rum , and will fet the diftill - houfe foul ...
الصفحة 95
... that grows in the country , given to each as foon as out of the fhell , is ferviceable ; also , to turn them out early in the morning in fome fhort green grafs pafture , and to keep them under fome fhade in the heat of the day .
... that grows in the country , given to each as foon as out of the fhell , is ferviceable ; also , to turn them out early in the morning in fome fhort green grafs pafture , and to keep them under fome fhade in the heat of the day .
الصفحة 100
perfon may infinuate himself into the favour of the public , rent a ftore and turn vendue master ; the five per cent . commiffion on all goods he dif poses of is fure and fafe profit , and in time he may make fome money , get credit ...
perfon may infinuate himself into the favour of the public , rent a ftore and turn vendue master ; the five per cent . commiffion on all goods he dif poses of is fure and fafe profit , and in time he may make fome money , get credit ...
الصفحة 104
... and your mind close to yourself , you never will be a great man : Shakespeare fays moft pointedly , But it is a common proof , " That lowlinefs is young ambition's ladder , Whereto the climber upward turns his face ; But when ...
... and your mind close to yourself , you never will be a great man : Shakespeare fays moft pointedly , But it is a common proof , " That lowlinefs is young ambition's ladder , Whereto the climber upward turns his face ; But when ...
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