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stroy the provision gardens and haunts of the Maroons; 

 and that they might not return without effecting some 

 service, they were required to take twenty days pro- 

 vision with them on every such expedition. Every 

 barrack was also furnished with a pack of dogs,, pro- 

 vided by the churchwardens of the respective parishes ; 

 it being foreseen that these animals would prove ex- 

 tremely serviceable, not only in guarding against sur- 

 prizes in the night, but in tracking the enemy. 



This arrangement was the most judicious hitherto 

 contrived for their effectual reduction; for so many 

 fortresses, stationed in the very centre of their usual 

 retreats, well supplied with every necessary, gave the 

 Maroons a constant and vigorous annoyance, and in 

 short became the chief means of bringing on that 

 treaty which afterwards put an end to this tiresome 

 war. 



About the year 1737, the assembly resolved on ta- 

 king two hundred of the Mosquito Indians into their 

 pay, to hasten the suppression of the Maroons. They 

 passed an act for rendering free negroes^ mulattoes, 

 and Indians more useful, and forming them into com- 

 panies, with proper encouragements. Some sloops 

 were despatched to the Mosquito shore; and that 

 number of Indians was brought into the island, form- 

 ed into companies under their own officers, and allow- 

 ed forty shillings a month for pay, besides shoes and 

 other articles. White guides were assigned to con- 

 duct them to the enemy, and they gave proofs of 

 great sagacitv in this service. It was their practice 



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