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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... most careful diftiller through hurry , or neglect of negroes ; but when a mif- take or error is once committed , a perfon fhould be cautious to avoid a repetition of the like again ; therefore observe , that when a charge of liquor has ...
... most careful diftiller through hurry , or neglect of negroes ; but when a mif- take or error is once committed , a perfon fhould be cautious to avoid a repetition of the like again ; therefore observe , that when a charge of liquor has ...
الصفحة 59
... most fandy deferts or mountains ; the method of planting it is . as follows : -The ground being prepared by clear- ing it of fhrubbery and grafs against the first of May , and holed at every three or four feet diftance , as soon as the ...
... most fandy deferts or mountains ; the method of planting it is . as follows : -The ground being prepared by clear- ing it of fhrubbery and grafs against the first of May , and holed at every three or four feet diftance , as soon as the ...
الصفحة 63
J. B. Moreton. 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 infolvent debtors , by which any perfon in the space of three months , by rendering ...
J. B. Moreton. 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 infolvent debtors , by which any perfon in the space of three months , by rendering ...
الصفحة 67
... most noble and clever ) ; Likewise Mr. Randum , a foolish young man , Monfieur Jaw , a brave count , but meagre and wan ; Mrs. Abraham's , a lady who feem'd very fick , And her hopeful fweet offspring , mafter Allick . But O ! thofe ...
... most noble and clever ) ; Likewise Mr. Randum , a foolish young man , Monfieur Jaw , a brave count , but meagre and wan ; Mrs. Abraham's , a lady who feem'd very fick , And her hopeful fweet offspring , mafter Allick . But O ! thofe ...
الصفحة 76
... ditional obligation to order that gentleman to fend me two pipes next year . I am , with great regard , Dear Sir , Your most humble fervant , TOM COLDWEATHER . It It is quite common for an attorney to keep a 76 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... ditional obligation to order that gentleman to fend me two pipes next year . I am , with great regard , Dear Sir , Your most humble fervant , TOM COLDWEATHER . It It is quite common for an attorney to keep a 76 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
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