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troops, on the fallacious idea of an accommodation 

 with the Maroons, would alone, it was said, realize 

 the danger. 



Fortunately for all parties, this unnatural and de- 

 structive revolt, was brought to a happy termination 

 much sooner than might have been apprehended. 

 On the 14th of December, the commissioner who 

 went to the Havanna for assistance, arrived at Mon- 

 tego bay with forty chasseurs or Spanish hunters 

 (chiefly people of colour) and about one hundred Spa- 

 nish dogs. Such extraordinary accounts were imme- 

 diately spread of the terrific appearance, and savage 

 nature of these animals, as made an impression on 

 the minds of the negroes that was equally surprising 

 and unexpected.* 



Whether these reports were propagated through 

 folly or design, they had certainly a powerful and very 

 salutary effect on the fears of the rebel Maroons, a 

 large party of whom now displayed strong and indu- 

 bitable evidences of terror, humiliation, and submis- 

 sion, and renewed their solicitations for peace with 

 rreat earnestness and anxiety. A negotiation was at 



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length opened, and a treaty concluded on the 21st of 

 December, of which the chief articles were, 1st, 



* Though these dogs are not in general larger than the shepherds dogs 

 in Great Britain, (which in truth they much resemble), they were repre- 

 sented as equal to the mastiff in bulk, to the bull-dog in courage, to the 

 blood-hound in scent, and to the grey-hound in agility. If entire credit 

 had been given to the description that was transmitted through the coun- 

 try of this extraordinary animal, it might have been supposed, that the 

 Spaniards had obtained the ancient and genuine breed of Cerberus him- 

 self, the many headed monster that guarded the infernal regions. 



