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civilized visitors be exempt from a 
share of the crime? Would not 
such an act of wanton brutality re- 
dound infinitely more upon them 
than upon those who were consi- 
dered so much their inferior in every 
respect ? But thus it is, that when 
men are intent on arguments to de- 
preciate a cause, they run beyond 
their objeét, and prove too much 
- for the side they maintain. Let me 
not commit the same fault: Iam 
not the apologist of this body of 
people; it is to be regretted that 
among them, as among other ne- 
_ groes, the young women had no 
scruples in offering themselves to 
white men, in order to procure dress 
and finery. Although they were 
naturally attached to lovers of their 
own complexion, who participated 
their favours, even when kept by 
the former in a state of ease and 
comparative splendour. Would I 
could say that the shocking offers 
with which these black fathers are 
charged were confined to their com- 
plexions! Would to God I could 
say that, in religion and in morals, 
a great example was set by those 
_ who boast a fair skin, and pass with 
_ the title of christians. 
The funerals of the Maroons were 
_ much the same as those of other ne- 
_ groes. Deaths were not more fre- 
- quent among them than elsewhere. 
_ Although they seldom had recourse 
tothe aid of medicine. Not that 
_they were averse from it, for, if an 
opportunity offered, they readily 
applied to the plantation doétors, 
‘and sometimes they took simple 
herbs prescribed to them by their 
old women. It was their custom to 
sing over the dead previous to bu- 
rial; and, inclosing the body in 
_ a wooden coflin, they interred it in 
_ some part of their inclosure. 
_ I have already given you ade. 
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scription of their mode of carrying 
on war, and of the nature of their 
cockpits, which it was necessary for 
me to do, to enable you to under- 
stand the contest mantained with 
the original Maroons under Cudjoe: 
Ihave, therefore, before I conclude, 
to recal to your mind, that, in the 
course of this letter, [ have princi- 
pally had in view the people of Tre. 
lawney town ; that body, of whose 
rebellion I mean to give you some 
account in my next. The difference 
between the inhabitants of the vari. 
ous towns is not very great. ‘Those 
of the windward, or eastern part of 
the island, are rather more civilized. 
Those of Accompong are in every 
respect the same as the people of 
Trelawney town, being only a part 
of them who had followed Accom- 
pong, the brother of Cudjoe, to 
settle in the town called after him. 
But neither the Accompongs, nor 
any other of the Maroon bodies, 
could be induced to join in the re- 
bellion of those of Trelawney town. 
On the contrary, they condemned it 
severely, and manifested their dis- 
pleasure at it, by reviling the mes. 
sengers that had been sent to them. 
In closing this letter, let me ob- 
serve, that the population of the 
Maroons in general had rapidly in- 
creased. The number that surren- 
dered in tha. years 1738 and 1739, 
did not amount to, 600; in 1770, 
they consisted of 885, men, women, 
and children ; in the year 1773, they 
were 1028 ; and in the year 1788, 
had increased to about 1400. 
Description of the Manners and. 
Habits of the Spanish Chasseurs, 
in the Island of Cuba, with an 
Account of the Blood Hound : 
from Dailas’s History of the Ma- 
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