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 91
When sol is blazing in the sphere , I sit coolly with my Or kiss and play , so banish care , A famous cowíkin hero . fair ; Young men , before they leave their native and peaceful habitations , form strange ideas of the West Indies ...
When sol is blazing in the sphere , I sit coolly with my Or kiss and play , so banish care , A famous cowíkin hero . fair ; Young men , before they leave their native and peaceful habitations , form strange ideas of the West Indies ...
الصفحة 92
Of late , the British colonies in the West Indies are so over - run with the sons of peasantry , from different parts of Great Britain and Ireland , particularly from Scotland , the latter well educated men in general , that it is very ...
Of late , the British colonies in the West Indies are so over - run with the sons of peasantry , from different parts of Great Britain and Ireland , particularly from Scotland , the latter well educated men in general , that it is very ...
الصفحة 100
... at the last at less than first coft ; and by bad management and diffipation ruined themselves and friends . From what I have faid , you will very naturally conclude , that though they are styled merchants in the West Indies , they ...
... at the last at less than first coft ; and by bad management and diffipation ruined themselves and friends . From what I have faid , you will very naturally conclude , that though they are styled merchants in the West Indies , they ...
الصفحة 101
... chosen a representative of the affembly : I have known the most illiterate , rude , aukward trademen , such as carpenters , bricklayers , mill - wrights , tinkers , taylors , shavers or barbers , legislators in the West Indies .
... chosen a representative of the affembly : I have known the most illiterate , rude , aukward trademen , such as carpenters , bricklayers , mill - wrights , tinkers , taylors , shavers or barbers , legislators in the West Indies .
الصفحة 104
-and I am sorry to be obliged to say that there are too many of this kind , not only in Jamaica , but all over the West Indies . “ When the righteous are in authority , the people rejoice ; but when the wicked beareth rule , the people ...
-and I am sorry to be obliged to say that there are too many of this kind , not only in Jamaica , but all over the West Indies . “ When the righteous are in authority , the people rejoice ; but when the wicked beareth rule , the people ...
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