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officer or a magistrate in the neighbourhood ; should the injury be com- 
mitted by a Maroon on a white person, he was to be given up to justice. 
No mention is made in the treaty of the penalty, which it is plain from 
all the circumstances was to be the usual punishment for the particular 
offence, whether that had been committed by a Maroon or by a white. 
For crimes committed among themsclves the punishment, short of death, 
was to be decided by the captains. So extreme an offence as subjected the 
criminal to such an expiation was to be in the same manner as was done 
in similar cases among other free negroes. 
Cudjoe’s treaty did not, however, restore peace at once. A party 
under Quaco, known as the Windward body, still held out, and inflicted a 
signal defeat on the troops sent after them, so complete, indeed, that the 
troops were glad to escape, leaving the dead and wounded on the field. 
It was more than a year before a complete pacification was effected, the 
treaty with Quaco being signed in the summer of 1739. 
Peace once established, the regulations so solemnly passed by the 
Legislature of Jamaica appear to have become a dead letter. The 
character and habits of the Maroons are so differently described by the 
two authors, Edwards and Dallas, as to be altogether irreconcilable. The 
descriptions by Edwards appear, on the whole, to be nearest the truth ; 
Dallas, whilst attempting to explain them away, unconsciously admit- 
ting their correctness. The accounts of the occurrences in the slave 
revolt of 1760, furnish a good example of this diversity of opinion. In 
pursuance of the treaties, the Maroons were to take part in the attack on 
the revolted slaves. Edwards states that they set out on the expedition 
and returned with the ears of the rebels, whom they represented they had 
slain, so that they might get the stipulated reward, but that it was 
discovered afterwards they had simply cut the ears off corpses and had 
been of no service. <A few nights after this occurrence, he continues, the 
troops were attacked by a concealed enemy and a number of the soldiers 
killed, but not a Maroon was to be seen, so that it was at first supposed 
they were the assailants, but after the fight they were found lying down 
in concealment. ‘‘The picture,” says Edwards, “ which I have drawn of 
“ character and manners, was delineated from the life, after long experi- 
“ence and observation” Dallas, on the other hand, speaking from 
hearsay, says they were active in the suppression of rebellion, and stood 
forth with determined spirit against the insurgents, and in 1760, the same 
year spoken of by Edwards, they lost several of their people. Their 
long contest, even under every advantage of concealment, proves they 
were not cowards; but Dallas, agreeing with Edwards, states the fact of 
their marital, or quasi marital, connection with the plantation slaves, 
which may fully account for the inaction described by Edwards. 
For some years after the treaties of 1738 and 1739, they led a wan- 
dering, idle life, any cultivation that was done on their farms being the 
