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 95
J. B. Moreton. account of the increase and decrease of each kind , and must mark even the date on the eggs , fo that he may see the oldest set first . He muft every morning enter in his book the number of each kind that are with egg ...
J. B. Moreton. account of the increase and decrease of each kind , and must mark even the date on the eggs , fo that he may see the oldest set first . He muft every morning enter in his book the number of each kind that are with egg ...
الصفحة 96
... kind . A book - keeper is obliged to fuperintend every domeftic transaction : when a fheep or a hog is killed , he muft ftand by and direct a negroe how to falt it ; and as it is very difficult to preferve meat three or four days , the ...
... kind . A book - keeper is obliged to fuperintend every domeftic transaction : when a fheep or a hog is killed , he muft ftand by and direct a negroe how to falt it ; and as it is very difficult to preferve meat three or four days , the ...
الصفحة 102
... kind of en- croachment on the liberty of the subject , leaft they pay dear for it . When a man gets into the affembly , or be- comes one of the council , he should study the laws of the island , and the prosperity of the peo- ple in ...
... kind of en- croachment on the liberty of the subject , leaft they pay dear for it . When a man gets into the affembly , or be- comes one of the council , he should study the laws of the island , and the prosperity of the peo- ple in ...
الصفحة 104
... kind , not only in Jamaica , but all over the West Indies . " When the righteous are in authority , the people rejoice ; but when the wicked beareth rule , the people murmur . ' From all I have now faid , you may be affured , that if ...
... kind , not only in Jamaica , but all over the West Indies . " When the righteous are in authority , the people rejoice ; but when the wicked beareth rule , the people murmur . ' From all I have now faid , you may be affured , that if ...
الصفحة 105
... kind and hofpitable to excefs ; proud , vain , high - spirited and flighty to an extreme ; ` lazy , dull , and indolent , in all induftrious mat- ters ; and volatile as air where drinking , whoring , gaming , or any kind of diffipation ...
... kind and hofpitable to excefs ; proud , vain , high - spirited and flighty to an extreme ; ` lazy , dull , and indolent , in all induftrious mat- ters ; and volatile as air where drinking , whoring , gaming , or any kind of diffipation ...
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