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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الصفحة 89
... planting herd . 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 ...
... planting herd . 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 ...
الصفحة 92
... planting and mercantile lines , which young men commonly go through to arrive at any degree of greatnefs . When a green - horn , as he is properly called , arrives , he enquires and delivers his letters of recommendation , and is got ...
... planting and mercantile lines , which young men commonly go through to arrive at any degree of greatnefs . When a green - horn , as he is properly called , arrives , he enquires and delivers his letters of recommendation , and is got ...
الصفحة 134
... planted plenty of corn and other provifions , raised small ftock , killed wild cattle , fwine , & c . " I have brandy , rum and porter , ( faid he ) make free , you are kindly welcome , I am always glad to en- tertain a stranger : " In ...
... planted plenty of corn and other provifions , raised small ftock , killed wild cattle , fwine , & c . " I have brandy , rum and porter , ( faid he ) make free , you are kindly welcome , I am always glad to en- tertain a stranger : " In ...
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