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
... water , forcing the inhabitants , like the Egyptians at the overflowing of the Nile , with their flaves and live ftock , to take fhelter in the mountains 1 mountains until the waters abate ; thefe heavy rains 38 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... water , forcing the inhabitants , like the Egyptians at the overflowing of the Nile , with their flaves and live ftock , to take fhelter in the mountains 1 mountains until the waters abate ; thefe heavy rains 38 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 39
... lives were loft , and fhips now fail over the old town , and anchor amongst the ruins of the houses ; the fame day a plantation was re- moved more than a mile from its former fituation . In confequence of fuch juft and infcrutable judg ...
... lives were loft , and fhips now fail over the old town , and anchor amongst the ruins of the houses ; the fame day a plantation was re- moved more than a mile from its former fituation . In confequence of fuch juft and infcrutable judg ...
الصفحة 60
... live content and happy . I fhall con- clude this fubject , and proceed to the natives ; and though I may be fevere in the following pages against many , be affured , I will speak from expe- rience , not from prejudice ; and that I will ...
... live content and happy . I fhall con- clude this fubject , and proceed to the natives ; and though I may be fevere in the following pages against many , be affured , I will speak from expe- rience , not from prejudice ; and that I will ...
الصفحة 64
... live ele- gantly ; it is not thought strange for a peasant's fon from Glasgow , or Aberdeen , in the space of four or five years , to commence merchant , and in a few years afterwards to make a pretty inde- pendence ; or if he enters ...
... live ele- gantly ; it is not thought strange for a peasant's fon from Glasgow , or Aberdeen , in the space of four or five years , to commence merchant , and in a few years afterwards to make a pretty inde- pendence ; or if he enters ...
الصفحة 66
... live miferably mean upon planting , and fome trash of damaged her- rings , and other fait fish , until they get independent in the world . Although Jews are not permitted to reprenfent in affembly , nor to hold any public offices under ...
... live miferably mean upon planting , and fome trash of damaged her- rings , and other fait fish , until they get independent in the world . Although Jews are not permitted to reprenfent in affembly , nor to hold any public offices under ...
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