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 50
... wish to be a planter , fhould attend the field from morning until night , obferve the nature of different foils , line the ground , keep a journal for his own in- ftruction , pay ftrict attention to the cattle and mules , learn to drefs ...
... wish to be a planter , fhould attend the field from morning until night , obferve the nature of different foils , line the ground , keep a journal for his own in- ftruction , pay ftrict attention to the cattle and mules , learn to drefs ...
الصفحة 56
... 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 middle ...
... 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 middle ...
الصفحة 72
... mortgage , with intereft , and all cofts , are difcharged . When a mortgagee wishes to get an eftate into his own poffeffion , he discharges difchages the old manager , and appoints fome indolent lazy 72 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... mortgage , with intereft , and all cofts , are difcharged . When a mortgagee wishes to get an eftate into his own poffeffion , he discharges difchages the old manager , and appoints fome indolent lazy 72 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 80
... wish to be an overfeer muft ferve his time ; dur , ing which painful period , if he does not humbly cringe , fawn , flatter , lie and diffemble , and bear all the overfeer's infults and reproaches tamely without murmering , he need ...
... wish to be an overfeer muft ferve his time ; dur , ing which painful period , if he does not humbly cringe , fawn , flatter , lie and diffemble , and bear all the overfeer's infults and reproaches tamely without murmering , he need ...
الصفحة 110
... wishes was only to " please their inclinations , " ( as they fay in their fongs ) . Their ideas of marriage and the folemn engagement of the connubial tye , are rather fu- perficial : and that may be well accounted for from what I have ...
... wishes was only to " please their inclinations , " ( as they fay in their fongs ) . Their ideas of marriage and the folemn engagement of the connubial tye , are rather fu- perficial : and that may be well accounted for from what I have ...
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