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 82
... he was always dirpleased ; the ground was so wet and heavy , that it was very laboriqus to dig the cane holes , or the belt of the canes were lodged , or the earth was Walhed away from the young plants ; thus the capricious.
... he was always dirpleased ; the ground was so wet and heavy , that it was very laboriqus to dig the cane holes , or the belt of the canes were lodged , or the earth was Walhed away from the young plants ; thus the capricious.
الصفحة 83
Walhed away from the young plants ; thus the capricious animal went on , constantly pestering the attorney with long and disagreeable letters and journals ; he commonly concluded his letter with this cheering comfort : “ Notwithstanding ...
Walhed away from the young plants ; thus the capricious animal went on , constantly pestering the attorney with long and disagreeable letters and journals ; he commonly concluded his letter with this cheering comfort : “ Notwithstanding ...
الصفحة 91
Young men , before they leave their native and peaceful habitations , form strange ideas of the West Indies ; their minds are fed and inflamed by fickly Hope's delusive dreams , so that every adventurer is buoyed up with the chimerical ...
Young men , before they leave their native and peaceful habitations , form strange ideas of the West Indies ; their minds are fed and inflamed by fickly Hope's delusive dreams , so that every adventurer is buoyed up with the chimerical ...
الصفحة 92
I shall now endeavour to point out to you the different gradations , in both the planting and mercantile lines , which young men commonly go through to arrive at any degree of greatness ...
I shall now endeavour to point out to you the different gradations , in both the planting and mercantile lines , which young men commonly go through to arrive at any degree of greatness ...
الصفحة 93
When a young man gets into a good employ , I mean where the attorney , without favour or affection , makes it an established rule to prefer the oldest book - keepers in rotation , he should ftrive to please the overseer , and remain in ...
When a young man gets into a good employ , I mean where the attorney , without favour or affection , makes it an established rule to prefer the oldest book - keepers in rotation , he should ftrive to please the overseer , and remain in ...
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