Six Months in the West Indies, in 1825J. Murray, 1832 - 311 стор. |
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Сторінка 57
... CACAO PLANTATION - SPANISH WOMEN - STEAM - BOAT- NAPARIMA - SAVANA GRANDE - FOREST - INDIANS - SIR R. WOODFORD'S SPEECH - BAPTIZING AND MARRYING NEGROS - ST . JOSEPH'S - ARIMA - BULL OF BENEDICT XIV . SCHOOL AND JAIL IN PORT OF SPAIN ...
... CACAO PLANTATION - SPANISH WOMEN - STEAM - BOAT- NAPARIMA - SAVANA GRANDE - FOREST - INDIANS - SIR R. WOODFORD'S SPEECH - BAPTIZING AND MARRYING NEGROS - ST . JOSEPH'S - ARIMA - BULL OF BENEDICT XIV . SCHOOL AND JAIL IN PORT OF SPAIN ...
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... cacao is one of the finest in the island . It lies on a very slight declivity at the bottom of a romantic amphitheatre of woody mountains . His house , together with the works of the estate , is situated at the edge of the trees , and a ...
... cacao is one of the finest in the island . It lies on a very slight declivity at the bottom of a romantic amphitheatre of woody mountains . His house , together with the works of the estate , is situated at the edge of the trees , and a ...
Сторінка 65
... cacao plantations in Trinidad . But planters are not poetical . Sugar can surely never be cultivated in the West Indies except by the labor of negros , but I should think white men , creoles or not , might do all the work of a cacao ...
... cacao plantations in Trinidad . But planters are not poetical . Sugar can surely never be cultivated in the West Indies except by the labor of negros , but I should think white men , creoles or not , might do all the work of a cacao ...
Сторінка 66
... cacao is car- ried on in the shade . People must come be- tween Cancer and Capricorn to understand this . I was well tired when we got back to An- tonio's house . What a pleasant breakfast we had , and what a cup of chocolate they gave ...
... cacao is car- ried on in the shade . People must come be- tween Cancer and Capricorn to understand this . I was well tired when we got back to An- tonio's house . What a pleasant breakfast we had , and what a cup of chocolate they gave ...
Сторінка 84
... cacao , and is obliged to keep up a Casa Real , a prison , a large church , two schools , and maintain their padre . Indians and free negros are admitted into these schools , but the master of the boys told me there were no slaves ...
... cacao , and is obliged to keep up a Casa Real , a prison , a large church , two schools , and maintain their padre . Indians and free negros are admitted into these schools , but the master of the boys told me there were no slaves ...
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Сторінка 293 - Pink and Pin, Tick and Quick and Jill and Jin, Tit and Nit and Wap and Win, The train that wait upon her.
Сторінка 283 - It is necessary to coerce the negligent, to restrain the violent, and to aid the weak and deficient, by the overruling plenitude of her power.
Сторінка 308 - Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Сторінка 40 - The island is divided into three sorts of men, viz. masters, servants, and slaves. The slaves and their posterity, being subject to their masters for ever, are kept and preserved with greater care than the servants, who are theirs but for five years, according to the law of the island.
Сторінка 269 - Gods' pure sceptres, and the darts of Love, That with their touch might make a tiger meek, Or might great Atlas from his seat remove; So white, so soft, so delicate, so sleek, As she had worn a lily for a glove, As might beget life, where was never none And put a spirit into the hardest stone.
Сторінка 6 - Eugenia, for ever prevails in its real and natural beauty. The Atlantic was gushing in through my port, in a very refreshing manner, and ebbing and flowing under and around my bed with every roll of the ship. My clothes were floating on the face of the waters. I turned to sleep again, but the sea came with that awful dead sledge-hammer beat, which makes a landsman's heart tremble, and the impertinent quotation of some poor scholar in the next cabin, about quatuor aut septem digitos, brushed every...
Сторінка 288 - And all the gates of His house are open. Where dwell you, man, woman ? in Scotland or England ? in the east or in the west ? in the north or in the south ? O come in, come in ; for the gates are open to you, Isa.
Сторінка 41 - I have seen an overseer beat a servant with a cane about the head till the blood has followed, for a fault that is not worth the speaking of ; and yet he must have patience, or worse will follow.
Сторінка 58 - The Sensual and the Dark rebel in vain, Slaves by their own compulsion! In mad game They burst their manacles and wear the name Of Freedom, graven on a heavier chain!