A true & exact history of the island of BarbadosLigon, Richard
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A true & exact history of the island of Barbados
Ligon, Richard
Barbados -- Description and travel; Plants -- Barbados; Sugar -- Manufacture and refining -- Barbados
The Goods being stowed in a Ware house, or Ware houses, your
Correspondent must reserve a handsome room for a Shop, where his
servants must attend; for then his Customers will come about him,
and he must be carefull whom he trusts; for, as there are some good,
so there are many bad pay-masters; for which reason, he must provide
himselfe of a Horse, and ride into the Country to get acquaintance;
and halfe a dosen good acquaintance, will be able to enform him, how
the pulse beats of all the rest: As also by enquiries, he will finde,
what prices the Goods bear, which he carries with him, and sell them
accordingly; and what valews Sugars bear, that he be not deceived
in that Commodity, wherein there is very great care to be had, in
taking none but what is very good and Merchantable, and in keeping
it drie in good Casks, that no wet or moist aire come to it; and so
as he makes his exchanges, and receives in his Sugars, or what other
commodities he trades for, they lie ready to send away for _England_,
as he findes occasion, the delivering of the one, making room for
the other; for Ships will be every month, some or other, comming for
_England_. If he can transport all his goods, raised upon the Cargo,
in eighteen months, it will be very well. This Cargo being doubled at
the _Barbadoes_, that returned back, will produce at least 50 _per
cent._ And then your Cargo, which was 1145 l. at setting out, and
being doubled there to 2290 l. will be at your return for _England_
3435 l. of which I will allow for freight, and all other charges 335
l. so there remaines to account 3100 l. clear. By which time, I will
take for granted, that your Correspondent has bargained, and gone
through for a Plantation, which we will presuppose to be of five
hundred acres, Stock’t as I have formerly laid down; (for we must fix
upon one, that our computations may be accordingly) if it be more or
lesse, the price must be answerable, and the Produce accordingly.
And therfore as we began, we will make this our scale, that 14000 l.
is to be paid, for a Plantation of 500 acres Stock’t. Before this
time, I doubt not, but he is also grown so well verst in the traffick
of the Iland, as to give you advice, what Commodities are fittest
for your next Cargo; and according to that instruction, you are to
provide, and to come your selfe along with it.
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