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 41
... 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 , fuch as citrons , pomegranates , Seville and China oranges , fweet ...
... 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 , fuch as citrons , pomegranates , Seville and China oranges , fweet ...
الصفحة 56
... frequent wreckings into different veffels . Porter cafks , porter , and the dregs of porter , will improve rum ; alfo tea , and temper lime , about two quarts of the latter to each puncheon ; burnt Mufcovado fugar will colour it . Here ...
... frequent wreckings into different veffels . Porter cafks , porter , and the dregs of porter , will improve rum ; alfo tea , and temper lime , about two quarts of the latter to each puncheon ; burnt Mufcovado fugar will colour it . Here ...
الصفحة 70
... he fhould vifit the plantation frequently , pry into every hole and corner of it , and furprize the ma- nager when he leaft expected his coming , to fee how how he paffed the time , and cultivated the eftate 70 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... he fhould vifit the plantation frequently , pry into every hole and corner of it , and furprize the ma- nager when he leaft expected his coming , to fee how how he paffed the time , and cultivated the eftate 70 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 71
... frequently ; ftand at the tack whole hours , at times , to fee how the boilers went on , and when they went wrong di- rect them and fet them right ; he should not fupport managers without merit , to serve his friends , or relations ...
... frequently ; ftand at the tack whole hours , at times , to fee how the boilers went on , and when they went wrong di- rect them and fet them right ; he should not fupport managers without merit , to serve his friends , or relations ...
الصفحة 100
... frequently run , even at the Jaft , of getting paid at all , by adopting either mild , litegative , or coercive methods . " Look round , and fee what others do , " Would you be rich and honeft too . ” As As foon as a man gets poffeffion ...
... frequently run , even at the Jaft , of getting paid at all , by adopting either mild , litegative , or coercive methods . " Look round , and fee what others do , " Would you be rich and honeft too . ” As As foon as a man gets poffeffion ...
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affift alfo almoſt attend attorney bafe becauſe beſt book-keepers buſineſs cafe canes cattle Chriftian commonly confequence corn cowfkin hero Creole diſeaſes drink eftate eſtate expence faid falary falt fame feven feveral fhall fhew fhould fickly filk filly finging fkimmings flaves fmall fome fomething fometimes fond foon friends ftrength ftrong fubjects fuch fufficient fugar Fungee fuppofe fupport fweet gentlemen grafs Great-Britain himſelf hogfheads honeft horfes houfe houſe hundred iſland Jamaica juftice keep laft leaft leaſt liquor maffa mafter mauby merchants mifs moft Mongrel Montego Bay morning moſt muft Mulatto muſt neceffary negroes never night obferve occafions overfeers paffing paffions perfon plantation planter pleafing pleaſe poffible poor puncheon Quadroon reſpect ſay ſeveral ſhall ſmall ſome ſpeak ſtock ſtores ſuch tajo thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand uſe Weft wenches Weſt Indies whilft wine women young yourſelf