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 56
... best : for if the spirit is hurried , and runs hot , it will not only waste , but will have a disagreeable flavor , fomething like low wines . Jamaica rum is reputed the beft that is made in the Weft - Indies , because it is the ...
... best : for if the spirit is hurried , and runs hot , it will not only waste , but will have a disagreeable flavor , fomething like low wines . Jamaica rum is reputed the beft that is made in the Weft - Indies , because it is the ...
الصفحة 75
... best for your intereft to direct him to convert them into rum , which will anfwer very well , for two hogfheads will make one puncheon of rum . You may be affured that no attention of mine shall be wanting to your concerns in this ...
... best for your intereft to direct him to convert them into rum , which will anfwer very well , for two hogfheads will make one puncheon of rum . You may be affured that no attention of mine shall be wanting to your concerns in this ...
الصفحة 83
... best flaves for domeftics , to wit , three house - maids , three fempftreffes , and two ftout wenches their apprentices , two washer- women , two cooks , two women attending poul- try , and two ftout wenches affifting them , two ...
... best flaves for domeftics , to wit , three house - maids , three fempftreffes , and two ftout wenches their apprentices , two washer- women , two cooks , two women attending poul- try , and two ftout wenches affifting them , two ...
الصفحة 84
... best flaves in pursuit of them . He gave ftrict orders to the watchmen to hide every flave which they might find breaking the corn or canes ; i . e . to chop and murder them , and bury them fecretly ; and when the skeleton of a flave ...
... best flaves in pursuit of them . He gave ftrict orders to the watchmen to hide every flave which they might find breaking the corn or canes ; i . e . to chop and murder them , and bury them fecretly ; and when the skeleton of a flave ...
الصفحة 85
... best parishes in the ifland , he was preferred to the manage- ment of a fine eftate in the parish of Vere ; the little fhuttle - driver , being elevated from the threadle to a cowfkin hero , purchased horses , a kitterine , and fine ...
... best parishes in the ifland , he was preferred to the manage- ment of a fine eftate in the parish of Vere ; the little fhuttle - driver , being elevated from the threadle to a cowfkin hero , purchased horses , a kitterine , and fine ...
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