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 38
... fome places ; this I was convinced of after the flood abated , by observing part of a negro hut and other wreck , ftuck faft in the branches of a large filk - cotton tree adjoining the river . May and October are commonly the rainy ...
... fome places ; this I was convinced of after the flood abated , by observing part of a negro hut and other wreck , ftuck faft in the branches of a large filk - cotton tree adjoining the river . May and October are commonly the rainy ...
الصفحة 40
... fome fo large , that an hundred men may fail in them . The beautiful palmeto and the cabbage - tree , alfo the foap - tree , the berries whereof have the fame effect as foap in washing . The mangrove , which grows in marshy places clofe ...
... fome fo large , that an hundred men may fail in them . The beautiful palmeto and the cabbage - tree , alfo the foap - tree , the berries whereof have the fame effect as foap in washing . The mangrove , which grows in marshy places clofe ...
الصفحة 41
... fome deer : I have fomethes fhot a fat cattle of this kind , and frequently wild hogs ; the latter are excellent when barbacued maroon fashion . The country is exceeding fer- tile , and produces abundance of fruit and vege- tables ...
... fome deer : I have fomethes fhot a fat cattle of this kind , and frequently wild hogs ; the latter are excellent when barbacued maroon fashion . The country is exceeding fer- tile , and produces abundance of fruit and vege- tables ...
الصفحة 43
... fome care and pains ; for the holes must be dug in fuch a manner , that after rains every part may retain an equal fhare of moisture ; if the holes were ftrait up and down , the canes would never come to perfection , but would parch ...
... fome care and pains ; for the holes must be dug in fuch a manner , that after rains every part may retain an equal fhare of moisture ; if the holes were ftrait up and down , the canes would never come to perfection , but would parch ...
الصفحة 45
... fome of them with a sharp knife , and obferving the grain : if it appears foft and moist , like a potatoe or turnip , it is too green ; but if dry , and white par- ticles appear , you may be fure that the cane is ripe ; any man , who is ...
... fome of them with a sharp knife , and obferving the grain : if it appears foft and moist , like a potatoe or turnip , it is too green ; but if dry , and white par- ticles appear , you may be fure that the cane is ripe ; any man , who is ...
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