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 15
... stock for that day , and to take about ten gallons more to diftribute occafionally to the failors ; it is the only way to gain their affections ; but obferve , when- ever you wish to give a bottle amongst them , let it be done after ...
... stock for that day , and to take about ten gallons more to diftribute occafionally to the failors ; it is the only way to gain their affections ; but obferve , when- ever you wish to give a bottle amongst them , let it be done after ...
الصفحة 86
... stock of any kind , to fell or barter for his own emolument ; nor should he be intrusted to difpofe of any of the eftate's produce , least he fhould be tempted to act difhoneftly . I knew many overfeers who accumulated very rapidly ...
... stock of any kind , to fell or barter for his own emolument ; nor should he be intrusted to difpofe of any of the eftate's produce , least he fhould be tempted to act difhoneftly . I knew many overfeers who accumulated very rapidly ...
الصفحة 94
... stock ) with the keys of the corn , and other ftores ; he must be very particular in getting up early every morning to haften to the field to call the lift and return to feed the fmall ftock , and to count them exactly ; he must keep an ...
... stock ) with the keys of the corn , and other ftores ; he must be very particular in getting up early every morning to haften to the field to call the lift and return to feed the fmall ftock , and to count them exactly ; he must keep an ...
الصفحة 96
... stock fed , and is kept conftantly bufy about one thing or another till paft eight ; he then gets his fupper , and goes to reft his wearied limbs on a couch of plaintain trash , with Oznabrig or facking sheets , shielded with a pavilion ...
... stock fed , and is kept conftantly bufy about one thing or another till paft eight ; he then gets his fupper , and goes to reft his wearied limbs on a couch of plaintain trash , with Oznabrig or facking sheets , shielded with a pavilion ...
الصفحة 97
... stock - houfe in her name , and to carry on fome pedling traffic in fheep , pultry , & c . As merchants in general are batchelors , they dine at ordinaries ; their clerks are obliged to find themselves in board , washing , and fometimes ...
... stock - houfe in her name , and to carry on fome pedling traffic in fheep , pultry , & c . As merchants in general are batchelors , they dine at ordinaries ; their clerks are obliged to find themselves in board , washing , and fometimes ...
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