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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... should be appointed to at tend him all day and night . Therefore let me re- queft , that when you find yourself indisposed as I have mentioned , you will immediately check the first symptom of a fever , leaft it gets too for- midable ...
... should be appointed to at tend him all day and night . Therefore let me re- queft , that when you find yourself indisposed as I have mentioned , you will immediately check the first symptom of a fever , leaft it gets too for- midable ...
الصفحة 32
... should think myfelf intitled to the honorable appellation of a quack ! I fhall now proceed to give you a fhort dif- cription of the island of Jamaica , and of the people thereof , their manners and customs . " Curst be the lines , how ...
... should think myfelf intitled to the honorable appellation of a quack ! I fhall now proceed to give you a fhort dif- cription of the island of Jamaica , and of the people thereof , their manners and customs . " Curst be the lines , how ...
الصفحة 50
... should direct and give inftructions to carry on bufinefs like clock - work , he will take advantages ; and knowing his own abilities and value , thinks himfelf entitled to reft and refreshment ; and very juftly he is , to as much or ...
... should direct and give inftructions to carry on bufinefs like clock - work , he will take advantages ; and knowing his own abilities and value , thinks himfelf entitled to reft and refreshment ; and very juftly he is , to as much or ...
الصفحة 56
... should be kept as cool as poffible ; a flow fire is the beft : for if the fpirit is hurried , and runs hot , it will not only waste , but will have a difagreeable flavor , fomething like low wines . Jamaica rum is reputed the best that ...
... should be kept as cool as poffible ; a flow fire is the beft : for if the fpirit is hurried , and runs hot , it will not only waste , but will have a difagreeable flavor , fomething like low wines . Jamaica rum is reputed the best that ...
الصفحة 58
... should be no defirable object for a man to seek after . Any man with four or five thousand pounds may get poffef- fion of a plantation , flaves , & c . by compounding to pay the remainder of the value in annual in- ftalments , and ...
... should be no defirable object for a man to seek after . Any man with four or five thousand pounds may get poffef- fion of a plantation , flaves , & c . by compounding to pay the remainder of the value in annual in- ftalments , and ...
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