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 52
... crop is a very laborious piece of business , and yet it is very amazing how cheer- fully the negroes begin and go through with it ; how , instead of getting weak and meagre , like the cattle and mules , they like rats fatten upon the ...
... crop is a very laborious piece of business , and yet it is very amazing how cheer- fully the negroes begin and go through with it ; how , instead of getting weak and meagre , like the cattle and mules , they like rats fatten upon the ...
الصفحة 53
... crop , probably there may not be good lees remaining fince the laft year , in which cafe there must be a greater quantity of skimmings than ufual fet ; if there are no molaffes , feventy per cent . of fkimmings , and thirty per cent ...
... crop , probably there may not be good lees remaining fince the laft year , in which cafe there must be a greater quantity of skimmings than ufual fet ; if there are no molaffes , feventy per cent . of fkimmings , and thirty per cent ...
الصفحة 70
... crops , or intereft of the money , pays for the eftate ; I do affure you , that many mighty men in councils and affemblies , all over the West Indies , have acquired all their greatness by fuch ignoble fchemes . " Such mighty heroes ...
... crops , or intereft of the money , pays for the eftate ; I do affure you , that many mighty men in councils and affemblies , all over the West Indies , have acquired all their greatness by fuch ignoble fchemes . " Such mighty heroes ...
الصفحة 75
... crops , you will pleafe to obferve , that when Mr. M'Donald was manager , and made three hundred hogsheads yearly ... crop next year ; you will pleafe to obferve , that the long continuance of the draught last year , F 2 and affected ...
... crops , you will pleafe to obferve , that when Mr. M'Donald was manager , and made three hundred hogsheads yearly ... crop next year ; you will pleafe to obferve , that the long continuance of the draught last year , F 2 and affected ...
الصفحة 76
... crop to make you a remittance equal thereto ; and that in two or three years fhall be clear of debt , which I long for much , that I may once more return to dear old England . I I am thankful to you for your kind present of Madeira ...
... crop to make you a remittance equal thereto ; and that in two or three years fhall be clear of debt , which I long for much , that I may once more return to dear old England . I I am thankful to you for your kind present of Madeira ...
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