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 54
An accident may happen with the most careful distiller through hurry , or neglect of negroes ; but when a miltake or error is once comınitted , a person should be cautious to avoid a repetition of the like again ; therefore observe ...
An accident may happen with the most careful distiller through hurry , or neglect of negroes ; but when a miltake or error is once comınitted , a person should be cautious to avoid a repetition of the like again ; therefore observe ...
الصفحة 59
Guinea grass will grow on the most fandy desercs or mountains ; the method of planting it is as follows : - The ground being prepared by clear . ing it of Ihrubbery and grass against the first of May , and holed at every three or four ...
Guinea grass will grow on the most fandy desercs or mountains ; the method of planting it is as follows : - The ground being prepared by clear . ing it of Ihrubbery and grass against the first of May , and holed at every three or four ...
الصفحة 63
1 fine parcel of creole ladies about him , and they lived most luxuriously , in defiance of the law ! There is a law of the island favouring insolvent debtors , by which any person in the space of three months , by rendering all his ...
1 fine parcel of creole ladies about him , and they lived most luxuriously , in defiance of the law ! There is a law of the island favouring insolvent debtors , by which any person in the space of three months , by rendering all his ...
الصفحة 67
I translated it as follows : Dear Moses , this chance is most pleasing to me , To send the contents of my mind unto thee ; On board of the Neptune , a paffage I took , With keen cunning notions of having good - look .
I translated it as follows : Dear Moses , this chance is most pleasing to me , To send the contents of my mind unto thee ; On board of the Neptune , a paffage I took , With keen cunning notions of having good - look .
الصفحة 76
... that it is best London particular ; you will lay me under an additional obligation to order that gentleman to send me two pipes next year . I am , with great regard , Dear Sir , Your most humble servant , TOM COLDWEATHER .
... that it is best London particular ; you will lay me under an additional obligation to order that gentleman to send me two pipes next year . I am , with great regard , Dear Sir , Your most humble servant , TOM COLDWEATHER .
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almoſt alſo appear attend attorney beſt better book-keepers buſineſs called canes carry cattle cent commonly corn cowſkin Creole cure drink eight eſtate eyes favour feet field firſt five follows fond four frequently friends gentlemen give ground hands heart hero himſelf houſe human hundred ignorant iſland Jamaica juſtice keep kind known ladies leaſt liquor live manager manner maſter means merchants mind miſs Mongrel morning moſt muſt nature Naves negroes never night obliged obſerve once overſeers pain particularly perſon plantation planting pleaſe poor reſpect ſame ſay ſee ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall ſome ſoon ſtock ſuch ſugar taken themſelves theſe thing thoſe thouſand till town turn uſe waſhed Weſt Indies whole wine wiſh women woods young yourſelf