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 poffible ; a flow fire is the best : for if the spirit is hurried , and runs hot , it will not only waste , but will have a disagreeable flavor , fomething like low wines .
... the worms too should be kept as cool as poffible ; a flow fire is the best : for if the spirit is hurried , and runs hot , it will not only waste , but will have a disagreeable flavor , fomething like low wines .
الصفحة 77
When an attorney vifits a plantation , he commonly invites a few diffipated gentlemen to spend a few days with him ; he fends wines and other neceffaries previously ; the only duty he does , is , to take a ride in the cool of the ...
When an attorney vifits a plantation , he commonly invites a few diffipated gentlemen to spend a few days with him ; he fends wines and other neceffaries 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 fings ' 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 fings ' till night— " Tajo , tajo . ” Creole men commonly keep black or mungrel women till ...
الصفحة 115
There were a variety of sweetmeats , and the choiceft fruit the inland produced ; alfo , wines , cordials , & c . & c . The plate on a fideboard brushed moft bright , not • not fullied with the pureft water , made a glittering IN THE ...
There were a variety of sweetmeats , and the choiceft fruit the inland produced ; alfo , wines , cordials , & c . & c . The plate on a fideboard brushed moft bright , not • not fullied with the pureft water , made a glittering IN THE ...
الصفحة 128
... with fweetmeats , wines , & c . & c . for which each gentleman pays three or four dollars : lawyers , merchants and clerks , & c . frequent such affemblies , and promifcuously meet and jostle each other : I have spent many merry ...
... with fweetmeats , wines , & c . & c . for which each gentleman pays three or four dollars : lawyers , merchants and clerks , & c . frequent such affemblies , and promifcuously meet and jostle each other : I have spent many merry ...
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