A true & exact history of the island of BarbadosLigon, Richard
History
A true & exact history of the island of Barbados
Ligon, Richard
Barbados -- Description and travel; Plants -- Barbados; Sugar -- Manufacture and refining -- Barbados
_Victualls brought from forraign
parts._ pag. 37.
_A Feast of an inland Plantation._ pag. 38.
_The like of a Plantation neer the
Sea._ pag. 39.
_Commodities exported and imported._ pag. 40.
_What materialls grow on the Iland,
fit to build with._ pag. 41.
_The number and nature of the Inhabitants._ pag. 43.
_A combination among the Servants,
to kill their Masters._ pag. 45.
_Reasons why the Negres can plot no
Massacres upon their Masters._ pag. 46.
_Negres pastime upon Sundaies,
and their aptnesse to learne Arts._ pag. 48.
_The Planters will not allow their
Slaves to be Christians._ pag. 50.
_Observations upon the shapes of the
Negres._ pag. 51.
_A plot of some Negres, to burn the_
Ingenio, _and the plot discovered by
some of their own country-men, who
were honest and noble_. pag. 53.
_Observations upon the_ Indians. pag. 54.
_Somwhat of the Planters themselves._ pag. 55.
_Tame Beasts, which are of great use
to the planters, as_, Camells, Horses,
Bulls, Oxen, Cowes, Assinigoes,
Hoggs, Sheep, Goats. pag. 58.
_Birds of all sorts._ pag. 60.
_Animalls and Insects._ pag. 61.
_Crabs that come and dwell upon the
Land._ pag. 65.
_Severall Trees growing upon the
Iland, and first of the poysonous trees
and plants._ pag. 66.
_Severall kinds of Fruit-trees._ pag. 69.
_Trees of mixt kinds._ pag. 72.
_Timber trees of severall kinds._ pag. 73.
_The_ Palmet Royall _described_. pag. 75.
_Plants that bear fruit._ pag. 79.
_The_ Pine _described_. pag. 82.
_Sugar Canes, with the manner of
planting, growth, time of ripenesse,
with the whole processe of Sugar-making,
both Muscavadoes and Whites._ pag. 84.
_The manner of distilling the skimings
of the Coppers, of which we make
the strong drink, which the planters
call_ kill-devill. pag. 92.
_An estimate of the value of the Sugar
made upon this Iland, in twenty
months._ pag. 95.
_The Withs described._ pag. 96.
_Caves, and the description of their
largenesse._ pag. 98.
_The use of_ Liam-hounds. ibid.
_Aloes growing there._ ibid.
_The flower of the_ Moon. pag. 99.
_English Herbs and Rootes._ ib.
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