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 56
... wines . Jamaica rum is reputed the best that is made in the Weft - Indies , because it is the strongest , and commonly finks a bubble of twenty - four ; the rum in all the other British islands might be made equal to that of Jamaica ...
... wines . Jamaica rum is reputed the best that is made in the Weft - Indies , because it is the strongest , and commonly finks a bubble of twenty - four ; the rum in all the other British islands might be made equal to that of Jamaica ...
الصفحة 77
... wines and other neceffaries previously ; the only duty he does , is , to take a ride in the cool of the morning or even- ing with the manager along the pleasant walks or intervals , or round fome of the cane pieces . In the evening the ...
... wines and other neceffaries previously ; the only duty he does , is , to take a ride in the cool of the morning or even- ing with the manager along the pleasant walks or intervals , or round fome of the cane pieces . In the evening the ...
الصفحة 106
... wine his blood alarms , He takes a quashiba unto his arms : The melting object pleas'd , then takes her hoe , And works and fings ' till night- " Tajo , tajo . " Creole men commonly keep black or mungrel women till a day or two before ...
... wine his blood alarms , He takes a quashiba unto his arms : The melting object pleas'd , then takes her hoe , And works and fings ' till night- " Tajo , tajo . " Creole men commonly keep black or mungrel women till a day or two before ...
الصفحة 115
... and the choiceft fruit the island produced ; also , wines , cordials , & c . & c . The plate on a fideboard brufhed moft bright , not not fullied with the pureft water , made a glitter- IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 115.
... and the choiceft fruit the island produced ; also , wines , cordials , & c . & c . The plate on a fideboard brufhed moft bright , not not fullied with the pureft water , made a glitter- IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 115.
الصفحة 128
... wines , & c . & c . for which each gentleman pays three or four dollars : lawyers , merchants and clerks , & c . frequent fuch affem- blies , and promifcuously meet and joftle each other : I have spent many merry nights at fuch balls ...
... wines , & c . & c . for which each gentleman pays three or four dollars : lawyers , merchants and clerks , & c . frequent fuch affem- blies , and promifcuously meet and joftle each other : I have spent many merry nights at fuch balls ...
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affift alfo almoſt attend attorney bafe becauſe beſt book-keepers buſineſs cafe canes cattle Chriftian commonly confequence corn cowfkin hero Creole diſeaſes drink eftate eſtate expence faid falary falt fame feven feveral fhall fhew fhould fickly filk filly finging fkimmings flaves fmall fome fomething fometimes fond foon friends ftrength ftrong fubjects fuch fufficient fugar Fungee fuppofe fupport fweet gentlemen grafs Great-Britain himſelf hogfheads honeft horfes houfe houſe hundred iſland Jamaica juftice keep laft leaft leaſt liquor maffa mafter mauby merchants mifs moft Mongrel Montego Bay morning moſt muft Mulatto muſt neceffary negroes never night obferve occafions overfeers paffing paffions perfon plantation planter pleafing pleaſe poffible poor puncheon Quadroon reſpect ſay ſeveral ſhall ſmall ſome ſpeak ſtock ſtores ſuch tajo thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand uſe Weft wenches Weſt Indies whilft wine women young yourſelf