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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... some instructions and advice respecting both ; I shall speak from experience , for I was five years in that island ; and fhould what I fhall offer , prove any way inftrumental in promoting your happiness , I fhall hereafter feel a ...
... some instructions and advice respecting both ; I shall speak from experience , for I was five years in that island ; and fhould what I fhall offer , prove any way inftrumental in promoting your happiness , I fhall hereafter feel a ...
الصفحة 20
... some hours after , my brother book - keeper , who had fome compassion for me , brought a bottle of the wine into my room , and made me take a glass of it , and in a little time after gave me more , mixed with water , which caused me to ...
... some hours after , my brother book - keeper , who had fome compassion for me , brought a bottle of the wine into my room , and made me take a glass of it , and in a little time after gave me more , mixed with water , which caused me to ...
الصفحة 24
... some hut , or place of shelter , till it is over ; and at working hours , when thus obliged to fhun the weather , do not keep loitering about the hall or piazza , for it may be difpleafing to your employer ; therefore retire to your ...
... some hut , or place of shelter , till it is over ; and at working hours , when thus obliged to fhun the weather , do not keep loitering about the hall or piazza , for it may be difpleafing to your employer ; therefore retire to your ...
الصفحة 49
... Some people may fay , that any man may be a planter ; and that bringing canes to perfection , boiling of fugar , and diftillation of rum , & c . & c . are quite fimple ; that any man may get know- ledge of these , without expofing his ...
... Some people may fay , that any man may be a planter ; and that bringing canes to perfection , boiling of fugar , and diftillation of rum , & c . & c . are quite fimple ; that any man may get know- ledge of these , without expofing his ...
الصفحة 55
... Some diftillers throw in the fweets at diffe- rent times , and make such mixtures that keep working on flowly for fixteen , eighteen , or twenty days ; but fuch I am convinced know nothing about diftillation ; the generality of ...
... Some diftillers throw in the fweets at diffe- rent times , and make such mixtures that keep working on flowly for fixteen , eighteen , or twenty days ; but fuch I am convinced know nothing about diftillation ; the generality of ...
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