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 committed , 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 committed , a person should be cautious to avoid a repetition of the like again ; therefore observe ...
الصفحة 56
... will improve rum ; also tea , and temper lime , about two quarts of the latter to each puncheon ; burnt Muscovado sugar will colour it . Here canes . Here let me observe the vast expence which 56 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... will improve rum ; also tea , and temper lime , about two quarts of the latter to each puncheon ; burnt Muscovado sugar will colour it . Here canes . Here let me observe the vast expence which 56 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 57
Here let me observe the vast expence which attends establishing a sugar plantation , supposing keeping only one hundred acres constantly under The mill , boiling , and curing - houses , and distill - house , with all the conveniencies ...
Here let me observe the vast expence which attends establishing a sugar plantation , supposing keeping only one hundred acres constantly under The mill , boiling , and curing - houses , and distill - house , with all the conveniencies ...
الصفحة 60
... I must observe that all ranks and denominations of people are more friendly , kindly , and hospitable , than in colder countries . I believe warm climates expand the heart with liberal and generous ideas ; as there are not regular.
... I must observe that all ranks and denominations of people are more friendly , kindly , and hospitable , than in colder countries . I believe warm climates expand the heart with liberal and generous ideas ; as there are not regular.
الصفحة 75
... you will please to observe , that when Mr. M'Donald was manager , and made three hundred hogsheads yearly , he injured the Naves and cattle materially , and cultivated and impoverished the plantation so that they never will retrieve ...
... you will please to observe , that when Mr. M'Donald was manager , and made three hundred hogsheads yearly , he injured the Naves and cattle materially , and cultivated and impoverished the plantation so that they never will retrieve ...
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