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ecuted with great success, an attack of the Maroon 

 windward town, called Nanny, situate on one of the 

 highest mountains in the island. Having provided 

 some portable swivel guns, he silently approached, 

 and reached within a small distance of their quarters 

 undiscovered. After halting for some time, he began 

 to ascend by the only path leading to their town. He 

 found it steep, rocky, and difficult, and not wide 

 enough to admit the passage of two persons abreast. 

 However, he surmounted these obstacles; and having 

 gained a small eminence, commanding the huts in 

 which the negroes were asleep, he fixed his little 

 train of artillery to the best advantage, and fired upon 

 them so briskly, that many were slain in their habita- 

 tions, and several threw themselves headlong down 

 the precipice. Captain Stoddart pursued the advan- 

 tage; killed numbers, took many prisoners, and in 

 short so completely destroyed, or routed the whole 

 body, that they were unable afterwards to effect any 

 enterprize of moment in this quarter of the island. 



About the same time another party of the Maroons, 

 having perceived that a body of the militia stationed 

 at the barrack of Bagnel's thicket, in St. Mary's pa- 

 rish, under the command of colonel Cbarlton, strayed 

 heedlessly from their quarters, and kept no order, 

 formed a project to cut them off, and whilst the offi- 

 cers were at dinner, attended by a very few ot their 

 men, the Maroons rushed suddenly from the adjacent 

 woods and attacked them. Several pieces were dis- 

 charged, the report of which alarmed the militia, who 

 immediately ran to their arms, and came up in time 

 to rescue their officers from destruction. The Ma- 



