APPENDIX. 



Observations on the disposition, character, manners, and h&- 

 bits of life, of the MAROON NEGROES of the island 

 ^/"JAMAICA, and a detail of the origin, progress, and ter- 

 mination of the late war between those people and the white 

 'habitant?. 



SECTION I. 



JAMAICA, as we have seen, was conquered from 

 the Spaniards, during the protectorate of Crom- 

 well, in the year 1655, by an armament under the 

 command of Admiral Penn and General Venables. 

 The Spanisli inhabitants are said to have possessed, 

 before the attack, about 1,500 enslaved Africans, most 

 of whom, on the surrender of their masters, retreat- 

 ed to the mountains, from whence they made fre- 

 quent excursions to harrass the English. Major-Ge- 

 neral Sedgewick, one of the British officers, in a let- 

 ter to Secretary Thurloe (1656) predicts, that these 



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