APPENDIX.] THE MAROONS. 



nea in believing the prevalence of Obi* and the su- 

 pernatural power of their Obea/i men. Obstacles like 

 these, accompanied with the fierce and sordid man- 

 ners which I shall presently describe, few clergymen 

 would, I think, be pleased to encounter, lest they 

 might experience all the sufferings, without acquiring 

 the glory of martyrdom. 



Under disadvantages of such magnitude was found- 

 ed the first legal establishment of our Maroon allies in 

 Jamaica. Inured, for a long series of years, to a life of 

 warfare within the island, it is a matter of astonish- 

 ment that they submitted, for any length of time, to 

 any system of subordination or government whatever. 

 It is probable they were chiefly induced to remain 

 quiet by the great encouragement that was held out 

 to them for the apprehending fugitive slaves, and he- 

 ing allowed to range over the uncultivated country 

 without interruption, possessing an immense wilder- 

 ness for their hunting grounds. These pursuits gave 

 full employment to the restless and turbulent among 

 them. Their game was the wild boar, which abounds 

 in the interior parts of Jamaica ; and the Maroons 

 had a method of curing the flesh without salting it. 

 This commodity they frequently brought to market in 

 the towns \ and with the money arising from the sale, 

 and the rewards which they received for the delivery 

 to their owners of runaway slaves, they purchased salt- 

 ed beef, spirituous liquors, tobacco, fire-arms, and am- 

 munition, setting little or no account on cloathing of 



* A species of pretended magic, described at large in vol. ii. book .4, 

 c, 3. 



