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 24
Should you enter into business in the country , when you fee an impending shower , haften to your home , or to fome hut , or place of shelter , till it is over ; and at working hours , when thus obliged to fhun the weather , do not keep ...
Should you enter into business in the country , when you fee an impending shower , haften to your home , or to fome hut , or place of shelter , till it is over ; and at working hours , when thus obliged to fhun the weather , do not keep ...
الصفحة 25
Health chiefly depends on the habit of the body ; if you find yourself coftive , take a gentle purge , for you should have a ftool once or twice daily . When your pulfe beat strong and faft , like the ticking of a watch ; when you feel ...
Health chiefly depends on the habit of the body ; if you find yourself coftive , take a gentle purge , for you should have a ftool once or twice daily . When your pulfe beat strong and faft , like the ticking of a watch ; when you feel ...
الصفحة 32
... and of phyfic , though I know nothing of the latter but what I experienced from obfervations on the treatment of myfelf and others ; and if I had a little more experience , which I hope I never fhall , I should think myfelf ...
... and of phyfic , though I know nothing of the latter but what I experienced from obfervations on the treatment of myfelf and others ; and if I had a little more experience , which I hope I never fhall , I should think myfelf ...
الصفحة 50
... and when a fubordinate perfon knows the ignorance of him who should direct and give inftructions to carry on business like clock - work , he will take advantages ; and knowing his own abilities and value , thinks himself entitled to ...
... and when a fubordinate perfon knows the ignorance of him who should direct and give inftructions to carry on business like clock - work , he will take advantages ; and knowing his own abilities and value , thinks himself entitled to ...
الصفحة 54
An accident may happen with the most careful diftiller through hurry , or neglect of negroes ; but when a mif- . take or error is once committed , a person should be cautious to avoid a repetition of the like again ; therefore observe ...
An accident may happen with the most careful diftiller through hurry , or neglect of negroes ; but when a mif- . take or error is once committed , a person should be cautious to avoid a repetition of the like again ; therefore observe ...
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