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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... and your ftomach at ease , drink some thin water gruel , which probably will work you downwards ; next inorning take the purge dissolved in a cup of warm water , and work it off with chin gruel or weak tea ; at night , when going to ...
... and your ftomach at ease , drink some thin water gruel , which probably will work you downwards ; next inorning take the purge dissolved in a cup of warm water , and work it off with chin gruel or weak tea ; at night , when going to ...
الصفحة 35
... like fyrens , attract and delude poor thoughtless sailors ; in those dens of infamy they riot away their days and nights , drinking new rum , grog , punch , or sour porter , so that they are deprived of their senses , and kept in a ...
... like fyrens , attract and delude poor thoughtless sailors ; in those dens of infamy they riot away their days and nights , drinking new rum , grog , punch , or sour porter , so that they are deprived of their senses , and kept in a ...
الصفحة 36
... round Kingston , to Rochfort , Liguanea , and the beautiful village of Halfway Tree , feasting , drinking , gambling , or in the company of lewd mongrel women , Sunday , is the greatest market day ; the negroes from all parts of the ...
... round Kingston , to Rochfort , Liguanea , and the beautiful village of Halfway Tree , feasting , drinking , gambling , or in the company of lewd mongrel women , Sunday , is the greatest market day ; the negroes from all parts of the ...
الصفحة 79
... so that as to eating and drinking , overfeers and book - keepers live very well ; they all mess together ; nor is there such distinction obferved among them as in the West India Inands . The meanest class of adventurers succeed best ...
... so that as to eating and drinking , overfeers and book - keepers live very well ; they all mess together ; nor is there such distinction obferved among them as in the West India Inands . The meanest class of adventurers succeed best ...
الصفحة 96
When the bell is rung to order the Naves out to work , the cowskin hero drinks the King , as a Gignal for the book - keeper to depart ; he returns about five or fix o'clock to see the stock fed , and is kept constantly busy about one ...
When the bell is rung to order the Naves out to work , the cowskin hero drinks the King , as a Gignal for the book - keeper to depart ; he returns about five or fix o'clock to see the stock fed , and is kept constantly busy about one ...
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