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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... whole hours daily and nightly , and take his monthly spell in the diftill - houfe ; but the gene- rality of managers think they have got a proper knowledge knowledge of all thefe , without ever handling a line 50 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... whole hours daily and nightly , and take his monthly spell in the diftill - houfe ; but the gene- rality of managers think they have got a proper knowledge knowledge of all thefe , without ever handling a line 50 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 51
... whole produce of the year , which coft fuch vaft labour and expence , go through hands in three or four months ; and good or bad management then may affect the proprietor very much . When I was one of the humble fraternity of book ...
... whole produce of the year , which coft fuch vaft labour and expence , go through hands in three or four months ; and good or bad management then may affect the proprietor very much . When I was one of the humble fraternity of book ...
الصفحة 59
... whole to cost 12,000l . which is not half the price of a fugar plantation , the intereft of which is 960l . A colt will fell for 30 , 40 , 50 , or 60l . an ox for 201. a fat fheep for 40s . and after the first four or five years , I ...
... whole to cost 12,000l . which is not half the price of a fugar plantation , the intereft of which is 960l . A colt will fell for 30 , 40 , 50 , or 60l . an ox for 201. a fat fheep for 40s . and after the first four or five years , I ...
الصفحة 65
... whole day long . They ftretch and strain their brazen lungs , With " going , going - there , its gone . " Thefe Chrift - killing dogs exert every base means to impofe upon Chriftians ; even their children are trained to villainy , keep ...
... whole day long . They ftretch and strain their brazen lungs , With " going , going - there , its gone . " Thefe Chrift - killing dogs exert every base means to impofe upon Chriftians ; even their children are trained to villainy , keep ...
الصفحة 66
... whole tribe affift each other with money or credit ; fo that in a very few years the poorest wandering Jerufalemite will ac- cumulate wealth ; they all live miferably mean upon planting , and some trash of damaged her- rings , and other ...
... whole tribe affift each other with money or credit ; fo that in a very few years the poorest wandering Jerufalemite will ac- cumulate wealth ; they all live miferably mean upon planting , and some trash of damaged her- rings , and other ...
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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