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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... for I was five years in that island ; and should what I fhall offer , prove any way inftrumental in promoting your happiness , I fhall hereafter feel a fecret fatisfaction for hav ing employed a few vacant hours fo well .
... for I was five years in that island ; and should what I fhall offer , prove any way inftrumental in promoting your happiness , I fhall hereafter feel a fecret fatisfaction for hav ing employed a few vacant hours fo well .
الصفحة 12
c . boarded us ; we were informed by the fat man , ( who was their linguift ) that they were cuftomhouse officers , and that we should have waited till they boarded us , and got their fees , which was a few ...
c . boarded us ; we were informed by the fat man , ( who was their linguift ) that they were cuftomhouse officers , and that we should have waited till they boarded us , and got their fees , which was a few ...
الصفحة 13
... fuperftitious and treacherous ; the finest of their women , fome hundreds of them , are cooped up in convents ; what pity that fine young women should be compelled to whither out their days in fuch inglorious dens of folitude ...
... fuperftitious and treacherous ; the finest of their women , fome hundreds of them , are cooped up in convents ; what pity that fine young women should be compelled to whither out their days in fuch inglorious dens of folitude ...
الصفحة 15
... having previously got the confent of the captain , or mate , least they get drunk and neglect their duty , and you should be blamed . I love failors ; -they are generous , rough , uncouth beings ; do not treat them with contempt or ...
... having previously got the confent of the captain , or mate , least they get drunk and neglect their duty , and you should be blamed . I love failors ; -they are generous , rough , uncouth beings ; do not treat them with contempt or ...
الصفحة 18
... Aberdeen , and Dublin , adminifters poifonous pills and ftuff with as much confequence as Millwood or Mead . What pity , that man should be fo grofsty impofed F A " impofed on , or that phyfic fhould be thus abused.
... Aberdeen , and Dublin , adminifters poifonous pills and ftuff with as much confequence as Millwood or Mead . What pity , that man should be fo grofsty impofed F A " impofed on , or that phyfic fhould be thus abused.
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