 | South America - 1822 - 194 pages
...or beautiful, are the negro's own property, nor has the master the least nlaim to them, the negroes being allowed to sell them to whom they please, though the master generally purchases them at a very low price. But besides the toil of this fishery, from the oysters strongly adhering to the rocks, they... | |
 | George Frederick Kunz, Charles Hugh Stevenson - Antiques & Collectibles - 2001 - 678 pages
...any regard to its being small or faulty. The remainder, however large or beautiful, are the Negro's own property, nor has the master the least claim to-...master generally purchases them at a very small price. . . . Some of these pearls, though indeed but few, are sent to Europe, the greater part being carried... | |
 | Nels Andrew Nelson Cleven - Latin America - 1927 - 824 pages
...any regard to its being small or faulty. The remainder, however large or beautiful, are the Negro's own property, nor has the master the least claim to...price. These Negroes cannot every day make up their number, as in many of the oysters the pearl is not at all, or but imperfectly formed ; or the oyster... | |
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... oysters in their bag, they begin to open them, and deliver the pearls to the officer, till they have made up the number due to their master ; and if the pearl be but formed, it is sufficient, without any regard to its being small or faulty. The remainder,... 