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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1 natives , and till it becomes deluted or weakened by sickness , frequent perspirations , internally and externally , and other evacuations , they seldom enjoy a right state of health . If you take care of yourself in the beginning ...
1 natives , and till it becomes deluted or weakened by sickness , frequent perspirations , internally and externally , and other evacuations , they seldom enjoy a right state of health . If you take care of yourself in the beginning ...
الصفحة 19
The following odd relation concerning myself , will convince you further of the nature of quacks : When I was a book - keeper in Clarendon , I was amicted with a fever , till reduced to an insensible { keleton ; during which time Tartar ...
The following odd relation concerning myself , will convince you further of the nature of quacks : When I was a book - keeper in Clarendon , I was amicted with a fever , till reduced to an insensible { keleton ; during which time Tartar ...
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... are frequent and often fatal attendants , not only on Exropeans , but Creoles also ; it often amazed me to find how imperceptibly my Hesh melted , or stole away from my skin and bones , till I became the ghost of what I had been .
... are frequent and often fatal attendants , not only on Exropeans , but Creoles also ; it often amazed me to find how imperceptibly my Hesh melted , or stole away from my skin and bones , till I became the ghost of what I had been .
الصفحة 24
Should you enter into business in the country , when you see an impending shower , haften to your home , or to some hut , or place of shelter , till it is over ; and at working hours , when thus obliged to fhun the weather , do not keep ...
Should you enter into business in the country , when you see an impending shower , haften to your home , or to some hut , or place of shelter , till it is over ; and at working hours , when thus obliged to fhun the weather , do not keep ...
الصفحة 25
Never drink cold water when you find yourself in a heat : warm beverage , weak punch , or sangre , is best , and will cool you ; and if such cannot be had , refrain from drink till you are cool . Be always guarded in your manner of ...
Never drink cold water when you find yourself in a heat : warm beverage , weak punch , or sangre , is best , and will cool you ; and if such cannot be had , refrain from drink till you are cool . Be always guarded in your manner of ...
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