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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... pleafed ; the ground was fo wet and heavy , that it was very laborious to dig the cane holes , or the beft of the canes were lodged , or the earth was washed washed away from the young plants ; thus the capricious 82 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... pleafed ; the ground was fo wet and heavy , that it was very laborious to dig the cane holes , or the beft of the canes were lodged , or the earth was washed washed away from the young plants ; thus the capricious 82 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 83
J. B. Moreton. washed away from the young plants ; thus the capricious animal went on , conftantly peftering the attorney with long and difagreeable letters and journals ; he commonly concluded his letter with this cheering comfort ...
J. B. Moreton. washed away from the young plants ; thus the capricious animal went on , conftantly peftering the attorney with long and difagreeable letters and journals ; he commonly concluded his letter with this cheering comfort ...
الصفحة 91
... Young men , before they leave their native and peaceful habitations , form ftrange ideas of the West Indies ; their minds are fed and inflamed by fickly Hope's delufive dreams , fo that every ad- venturer is buoyed up with the ...
... Young men , before they leave their native and peaceful habitations , form ftrange ideas of the West Indies ; their minds are fed and inflamed by fickly Hope's delufive dreams , fo that every ad- venturer is buoyed up with the ...
الصفحة 92
... young men commonly go through to arrive at any degree of greatnefs . When a green - horn , as he is properly called , arrives , he enquires and delivers his letters of recommendation , and is got into business , as I obferved to you ...
... young men commonly go through to arrive at any degree of greatnefs . When a green - horn , as he is properly called , arrives , he enquires and delivers his letters of recommendation , and is got into business , as I obferved to you ...
الصفحة 93
... 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 strive to please the overfeer , and remain in it as ...
... 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 strive to please the overfeer , and remain in it as ...
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