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 87
Seeing his plantation in such a ruined condition , he with much composure of mind very tamely addreffed the overfeer , whofe name was Fungee , thus : " Mr. Fungee , I find you are very induftrious ; you certainly have uncommon abilities ...
Seeing his plantation in such a ruined condition , he with much composure of mind very tamely addreffed the overfeer , whofe name was Fungee , thus : " Mr. Fungee , I find you are very induftrious ; you certainly have uncommon abilities ...
الصفحة 89
The life of an overfeer is by no means a life of ease or content ; though he may at times indulge himself in every vicious practice , yet , while he fits an hour extraordinary after dinner with his friends , he is uneafy in his mind ...
The life of an overfeer is by no means a life of ease or content ; though he may at times indulge himself in every vicious practice , yet , while he fits an hour extraordinary after dinner with his friends , he is uneafy in his mind ...
الصفحة 104
From all I have now faid , you may be affured , that if you do not behave yourself courteously , humble , and fubmiffive , and keep your tongue as it were with a bit and bridle , and your mind close to yourself , you never will be a ...
From all I have now faid , you may be affured , that if you do not behave yourself courteously , humble , and fubmiffive , and keep your tongue as it were with a bit and bridle , and your mind close to yourself , you never will be a ...
الصفحة 117
During dinner , they did not forget to reprimand the maids feveral times , for not brushing off the flies ; which put me in mind of their fongs . " Quashibas , why you no bring bush ; " You no fee flie kackaw ...
During dinner , they did not forget to reprimand the maids feveral times , for not brushing off the flies ; which put me in mind of their fongs . " Quashibas , why you no bring bush ; " You no fee flie kackaw ...
الصفحة 120
... with two or three fiart touches of a fashionable disease , fo that he got properly cured again , to make a long and lafting impreffion on his mind , and after trying the tempers and difpofitions of other women , their ftrength and ...
... with two or three fiart touches of a fashionable disease , fo that he got properly cured again , to make a long and lafting impreffion on his mind , and after trying the tempers and difpofitions of other women , their ftrength and ...
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