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 106
... till night- " Tajo , tajo . " Creole men commonly keep black or mungrel women till a day or two before they enter into the serious bond of marriage ; and though there may be a family of different coloured children of their intended ...
... till night- " Tajo , tajo . " Creole men commonly keep black or mungrel women till a day or two before they enter into the serious bond of marriage ; and though there may be a family of different coloured children of their intended ...
الصفحة 108
... till he accidentally found her in a fituation which I fhall not mention , with a captain of a man of war , who frequently vifited him as a particular friend ; upon examining her trunks , all the let- ters which he had received from her ...
... till he accidentally found her in a fituation which I fhall not mention , with a captain of a man of war , who frequently vifited him as a particular friend ; upon examining her trunks , all the let- ters which he had received from her ...
الصفحة 112
... till which time the is a maid ; and the dear little pledge of their ftolen blifs will be tenderly nurfed ; but it commonly happens when they wish to conceal their tricks , that they are fent to Europe for their education ; one of them ...
... till which time the is a maid ; and the dear little pledge of their ftolen blifs will be tenderly nurfed ; but it commonly happens when they wish to conceal their tricks , that they are fent to Europe for their education ; one of them ...
الصفحة 113
... till they return to their original creo- lifm . " Send a goofe to Dover , " And a goose it will come over . " Creole fifters living in the country , though fingle , have commonly each a number of sheep , goats , fwine , and poultry ; in ...
... till they return to their original creo- lifm . " Send a goofe to Dover , " And a goose it will come over . " Creole fifters living in the country , though fingle , have commonly each a number of sheep , goats , fwine , and poultry ; in ...
الصفحة 129
... till they return . Be cau- tious and fecret in your intrigues , leaft you get into disagreeable and unneceffary broils ; for , " he that is robbed , not wanting what is ftolen , let him not know it , and he is not robbed at all ...
... till they return . Be cau- tious and fecret in your intrigues , leaft you get into disagreeable and unneceffary broils ; for , " he that is robbed , not wanting what is ftolen , let him not know it , and he is not robbed at all ...
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