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The maistry may die, he may abscond, and sometimes he advances to coolies who decamp and take advances from another planter or his maistry. In short, whether the planter advances directly to coolies, or to maistries to bring coolies, he finds himself involved in a mixture of losses and worries and uncertainty as to getting through his various works at the proper time.
How would you like to come down to Cuba and be a planter, my boy?" "I'm not so sure that I'd like to," replied the eldest. "Well, that's straight-spoken. What have you against it?" "Nothing, except that I don't know anything about it." "What do you know?" The boy smiled wisely. "Not very much, I guess." "Well, what are you interested in?" "Money!" "Aha! What's bred in the bone, eh?
Mitchell, a sugar planter who had resided twenty-seven years in Trinidad, and who is the superintendent of the liberated negroes there, says he knows of no instance of a manumitted slave not maintaining himself. Mr. Mitchell says that their work is well executed, and that they can earn as much as four shillings a day.
The planter who consults his health is not only cautious in his dress and diet, but rises early for the business of the field, and transacts it before ten o'clock, and then retreats to the house or shade during the melting heat of the day, until the coolness of the evening again invites him to the field.
Being possessed of property in Jamaica, he resided there many years as a planter; during which time he was an eloquent and leading member of the House of Assembly, or Provincial Legislature of that island.
Finding my efforts to pray almost unavailing, I did pray for deliverance, though I waited my fate in sullen indifference, or rather, indeed, somewhat as if I was an unconcerned spectator of what was taking place. The chief lifted his arm on high as a sign that the execution was to commence. The first person led forward was the planter whose house we had attempted to defend.
It was about the commencement of the present century that this island suffered much from a visitation, which threatened to bring famine and desolation, and destroy, not only the present, but the future hopes of the planter.
Yet some striking exceptions there are among us, from the fact that the negro is naturally more impressible to religious sentiment than the white." "Well," said Miss Ophelia, "how came you to give up your plantation life?" "Well, we jogged on together some time, till Alfred saw plainly that I was no planter.
Near Timmendiquas sat Thayendanegea, dressed as usual in his mixture of savage and civilized costume, and about him were other famous Indian chiefs, The Corn Planter, Red jacket, Hiokatoo, Sangerachte, Little Beard, a young Seneca renowned for ferocity, and others.
"Be welcome aboard the Cinco Llagas, Colonel, darling," a voice vaguely familiar addressed the planter. "We've made the best of the Spaniards' wardrobe in honour of this visit, though it was scarcely yourself we had dared hope to expect. You find yourself among friends old friends of yours, all." The Colonel stared in stupefaction. Mr.
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