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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الصفحة 63
Mr. Lewis was clerk to the late Mr. Hebert ( a very capital merchant ) , and having taken a propensity to the law , after serving him four or five years very faithfully , he was sent at the expence of Mr. Hebert to the Temple , where he ...
Mr. Lewis was clerk to the late Mr. Hebert ( a very capital merchant ) , and having taken a propensity to the law , after serving him four or five years very faithfully , he was sent at the expence of Mr. Hebert to the Temple , where he ...
الصفحة 64
There are some extensive merchants in Kingstown , Spanish Town , Montego Bay , & c . a few of whom are English and ... or Aberdeen , in the space of four or five years , to commence merchant , and in a few years afterwards to make a ...
There are some extensive merchants in Kingstown , Spanish Town , Montego Bay , & c . a few of whom are English and ... or Aberdeen , in the space of four or five years , to commence merchant , and in a few years afterwards to make a ...
الصفحة 66
There are feveral Jews all over the island , many rich merchants and planters ; the whole tribe afist each other with money or credit ; fo that in a very few years the poorest wandering Jerusalemice will accuinulate wealth ; they all ...
There are feveral Jews all over the island , many rich merchants and planters ; the whole tribe afist each other with money or credit ; fo that in a very few years the poorest wandering Jerusalemice will accuinulate wealth ; they all ...
الصفحة 97
As merchants in general are batchelors , they dine at ordinaries ; their clerks are obliged to find themselves in board , washing , and sometimes lodging ; 1 lodging ; and though one gets a falary of IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 97.
As merchants in general are batchelors , they dine at ordinaries ; their clerks are obliged to find themselves in board , washing , and sometimes lodging ; 1 lodging ; and though one gets a falary of IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 97.
الصفحة 98
Notwithstanding all this , clerks like to dress genteelly on Sundays ; for every one , I believe , is buoyed up with the notion that one time or another he will be a merchant ; well knowing that almost every West - India merchant was ...
Notwithstanding all this , clerks like to dress genteelly on Sundays ; for every one , I believe , is buoyed up with the notion that one time or another he will be a merchant ; well knowing that almost every West - India merchant was ...
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