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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... whole hours daily and nightly , and take his monthly spell in the diftill - houfe ; but the gene- rality of managers think they have got a proper knowledge knowledge of all thefe , without ever handling a line 50 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... whole hours daily and nightly , and take his monthly spell in the diftill - houfe ; but the gene- rality of managers think they have got a proper knowledge knowledge of all thefe , without ever handling a line 50 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 51
... whole produce of the year , which coft fuch vaft labour and expence , go through hands in three or four months ; and good or bad management then may affect the proprietor very much . When I was one of the humble fraternity of book ...
... whole produce of the year , which coft fuch vaft labour and expence , go through hands in three or four months ; and good or bad management then may affect the proprietor very much . When I was one of the humble fraternity of book ...
الصفحة 59
... whole to coft 12,000l . which is not half the price of a fugar plantation , the interest of which is 960l . A colt will fell for 30 , 40 , 50 , or 60l . an ox for 201. a fat fheep for 40s . and after the first four or five years , I ...
... whole to coft 12,000l . which is not half the price of a fugar plantation , the interest of which is 960l . A colt will fell for 30 , 40 , 50 , or 60l . an ox for 201. a fat fheep for 40s . and after the first four or five years , I ...
الصفحة 65
... whole day long They ftretch and strain their brazen lungs , With " going , going - there , its gone . " Thefe Chrift - killing dogs exert every base means to impose upon Chriftians ; even their children are trained to villainy , keep ...
... whole day long They ftretch and strain their brazen lungs , With " going , going - there , its gone . " Thefe Chrift - killing dogs exert every base means to impose upon Chriftians ; even their children are trained to villainy , keep ...
الصفحة 66
... whole tribe affift each other with money or credit ; fo that in a very few years the pooreft wandering Jerufalemite will ac- cumulate wealth ; they all live miferably mean upon planting , and fome trash of damaged her- rings , and other ...
... whole tribe affift each other with money or credit ; fo that in a very few years the pooreft wandering Jerufalemite will ac- cumulate wealth ; they all live miferably mean upon planting , and fome trash of damaged her- rings , and other ...
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