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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الصفحة 95
... some shade in the heat of the day . Guinea or India corn ground is the best food ; and as they are fubject to the yaws , a dif- temper very diftructive amongst them , they should be rubbed every morning , when they have this in- fection ...
... some shade in the heat of the day . Guinea or India corn ground is the best food ; and as they are fubject to the yaws , a dif- temper very diftructive amongst them , they should be rubbed every morning , when they have this in- fection ...
الصفحة 117
... some of the company smiled , and I was in pain for poor Laura , for she was my favourite . The fact ap- peared to be this : fhe had been that forenoon , as ufual , in the cook - room , where he ate a cala- bash full of fubftantial ...
... some of the company smiled , and I was in pain for poor Laura , for she was my favourite . The fact ap- peared to be this : fhe had been that forenoon , as ufual , in the cook - room , where he ate a cala- bash full of fubftantial ...
الصفحة 118
... infpired me with ideas different from what I before entertained ; on our return through a plantain walk , we went intentionally aftray . " I long ; " I long to tafte beneath some plantain's fhade 118 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... infpired me with ideas different from what I before entertained ; on our return through a plantain walk , we went intentionally aftray . " I long ; " I long to tafte beneath some plantain's fhade 118 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 119
J. B. Moreton. ; " I long to tafte beneath some plantain's fhade , " The warm endearments of a willing maid ; " Whofe tender years the nice gradation prove , " When infant fondness ripens into love " There ... some plantain's fhade, ...
J. B. Moreton. ; " I long to tafte beneath some plantain's fhade , " The warm endearments of a willing maid ; " Whofe tender years the nice gradation prove , " When infant fondness ripens into love " There ... some plantain's fhade, ...
الصفحة 126
... Some men are fo weak and filly as to think that black girls will not fuit their purposes , and bargain with the parents of Mongrels to hire their daughters for the use of proftitution . Nay , even Creole ladies , as I have faid before ...
... Some men are fo weak and filly as to think that black girls will not fuit their purposes , and bargain with the parents of Mongrels to hire their daughters for the use of proftitution . Nay , even Creole ladies , as I have faid before ...
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