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 56
... the worms too should be kept as cool as possible ; a now fire is the best : for if the spirit is hurried , and runs hot , it will not only walte , but will have a disagreeable favor , something like low wines .
... the worms too should be kept as cool as possible ; a now fire is the best : for if the spirit is hurried , and runs hot , it will not only walte , but will have a disagreeable favor , something like low wines .
الصفحة 77
When an attorney visits a plantation , he commonly invites a few dissipated gentlemen to spend a few days with him ; he sends wines and other necessaries previously ; the only duty he does , is , to take a ride in the cool of the ...
When an attorney visits a plantation , he commonly invites a few dissipated gentlemen to spend a few days with him ; he sends wines and other necessaries previously ; the only duty he does , is , to take a ride in the cool of the ...
الصفحة 106
When pepper - pot and wine his blood alarms , He takes a quafhiba unto his arms : The melting object pleas'd , then takes her hoe , And works and sings ' till night_ “ Tajo , tajo . ” Creole men commonly keep black or mungrel women till ...
When pepper - pot and wine his blood alarms , He takes a quafhiba unto his arms : The melting object pleas'd , then takes her hoe , And works and sings ' till night_ “ Tajo , tajo . ” Creole men commonly keep black or mungrel women till ...
الصفحة 115
There were a variety of sweetmeats , and the choicest fruit the isand produced ; also , wines , cordials , & c . & c . The plate on a lideboard brushed most bright , nor not sullied with the purest water , made a glittering IN THE WEST ...
There were a variety of sweetmeats , and the choicest fruit the isand produced ; also , wines , cordials , & c . & c . The plate on a lideboard brushed most bright , nor not sullied with the purest water , made a glittering IN THE WEST ...
الصفحة 128
... and prepares an elegant supper , with sweetmeats , wines , & c . & c . for which each gentleman pays three or four dollars : lawyers , merchants and clerks , & c . frequent such assemblies , and promiscuously meet and joftle each ...
... and prepares an elegant supper , with sweetmeats , wines , & c . & c . for which each gentleman pays three or four dollars : lawyers , merchants and clerks , & c . frequent such assemblies , and promiscuously meet and joftle each ...
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