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 124
When those spurious cubs , having no trades , squander what their infatuated parents bequeathed them , they turn out the most thieving pilfering vagrants ; for never having practised any industry , but beggared themselves by their ...
When those spurious cubs , having no trades , squander what their infatuated parents bequeathed them , they turn out the most thieving pilfering vagrants ; for never having practised any industry , but beggared themselves by their ...
الصفحة 152
... to turn out to cultivate the ground , and take their pickinnies ( i . e . children ) on their backs , to which they are tied with handkerchiefs ; and when they are weary of their burthens , lay them on sheep - skins in the field .
... to turn out to cultivate the ground , and take their pickinnies ( i . e . children ) on their backs , to which they are tied with handkerchiefs ; and when they are weary of their burthens , lay them on sheep - skins in the field .
الصفحة 154
Him turn me out into the field , Wid hoe , the ground to clear - o ; Me take pickinniny on my back , And work him te - me weary . Him , Obissha , him de come one night , And give me gown and busses ; Him get one pickinniny , white !
Him turn me out into the field , Wid hoe , the ground to clear - o ; Me take pickinniny on my back , And work him te - me weary . Him , Obissha , him de come one night , And give me gown and busses ; Him get one pickinniny , white !
الصفحة 158
And cock - up bubbies , ripe for soft delight , Twist , wind and turn , and turn and wind all night . When wanton Jiggo , with “ side - long looks of love . " , To mutual ' rapture do each other move ; ! With kind compliance , and with ...
And cock - up bubbies , ripe for soft delight , Twist , wind and turn , and turn and wind all night . When wanton Jiggo , with “ side - long looks of love . " , To mutual ' rapture do each other move ; ! With kind compliance , and with ...
الصفحة 185
... friendly and intimate terms , least they serve you so in turn ; and be not ready to expose the faults in another which you commit N yourself , yourself ; and speak cautiously either in praise or dispraise IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS .
... friendly and intimate terms , least they serve you so in turn ; and be not ready to expose the faults in another which you commit N yourself , yourself ; and speak cautiously either in praise or dispraise IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS .
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almoſt alſo appear attend attorney beſt better book-keepers buſineſs called canes carry cattle cent commonly corn cowſkin Creole cure drink eight eſtate eyes favour feet field firſt five follows fond four frequently friends gentlemen give ground hands heart hero himſelf houſe human hundred ignorant iſland Jamaica juſtice keep kind known ladies leaſt liquor live manager manner maſter means merchants mind miſs Mongrel morning moſt muſt nature Naves negroes never night obliged obſerve once overſeers pain particularly perſon plantation planting pleaſe poor reſpect ſame ſay ſee ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall ſome ſoon ſtock ſuch ſugar taken themſelves theſe thing thoſe thouſand till town turn uſe waſhed Weſt Indies whole wine wiſh women woods young yourſelf