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
... sleep out of the twenty - four : when it was my weekly turn to go to bed nightly at eight or nine o'clock , P. M. I was roused with the dreadful alarm of uc spell's called maffa , ” at high twelve , and obliged to sit up until eight ...
... sleep out of the twenty - four : when it was my weekly turn to go to bed nightly at eight or nine o'clock , P. M. I was roused with the dreadful alarm of uc spell's called maffa , ” at high twelve , and obliged to sit up until eight ...
الصفحة 52
If skimmings remain ten or twelve hours unset , they will turn ropy and spoil , after which , if they are set , they will prevent the other sweets from yielding a due proportion of rum , and will set the distill - house foul ...
If skimmings remain ten or twelve hours unset , they will turn ropy and spoil , after which , if they are set , they will prevent the other sweets from yielding a due proportion of rum , and will set the distill - house foul ...
الصفحة 95
... that grows in the country , given to each as soon as out of the shell , is serviceable ; also , to turn them out early in the morning in some short green grass pasture , and to keep them under some shade in the heat of the day .
... that grows in the country , given to each as soon as out of the shell , is serviceable ; also , to turn them out early in the morning in some short green grass pasture , and to keep them under some shade in the heat of the day .
الصفحة 100
person may insinuate himself into the favour of the public , rent a store and turn vendue master ; the five per cent . commission on all goods he dif poses of is sure and safe profit , and in time he may make some money , get credit ...
person may insinuate himself into the favour of the public , rent a store and turn vendue master ; the five per cent . commission on all goods he dif poses of is sure and safe profit , and in time he may make some money , get credit ...
الصفحة 104
... and your mind close to yourself , you never will be a great man : Shakespeare says most pointedly , But it is a common proof , « That lowliness 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 says most pointedly , But it is a common proof , « That lowliness is young ambition's ladder , Whereto the climber upward turns his face ; But when ...
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