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blacks would prove a thorn in the sides of the Eng- 

 lish. He adds, that they gave no quarter to his men, 

 but de-troyed them whenever they found opportuni- 

 ty; scarce a week passing without their murdering 

 one or more of them; and as the soldiers became 

 more confident and careless, the negroes grew more 

 enterprising and bloody-minded. " Having no moral 

 " sense," continues he, " and not understanding what 

 " the laws and customs of civil nations mean, we 

 know not how to capitulate or treat with any of 

 them. But be assured they must either be de- 

 stroyed or brought in, upon some terms or other; 

 or else they will prove a great discouragement to 

 the settling of the country/' What he foretold 

 soon came to pass. At the latter part of the same 

 year (1656) the army gained some trifling success 

 against them ; but this was immediately afterwards 

 severely retaliated by the slaughter of forty soldiers, 

 cut off as thev were carelessly rambling from their 



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quarters. A detachment was immediately sent in 

 pursuit of the enemy, which came up with and kill- 

 ed seven or eight of them; but they still found means 

 to hold out, until being hard pressed the year follow- 

 ing by colonel D'Oyley, who, by his final overthrow 

 of the Spaniards, had taken from them all hope of fu- 

 ture succour from their ancient masters, they became 

 very much straitened for want of provisions and 

 ammunition. The main body, under the command 

 of a negro named Juan de Bolos, (whose place of re- 

 treat in the parish of Clarendon still retains his name), 

 at length solicited for peace, and surrendered to the 

 English on terms of pardon and freedom. A large 

 party, however, (who had now acquired the name 



