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North fide; and, having gained fome advantages over them, he re- 

 turned, with one who pretended to treat for the reft. This em- 

 bafly, however, was only calculated to amufe the Whites, and gain 

 fome reipite ; for they no fooner found themfelves in a proper con- 

 dition, and the white inhabitants lulled into fecurity, than they 

 began to renew hoftilities. 



Thefe Bhicks poflefled feveral fmall towns in different divinons 

 of the country; and, about the year 1693, commenced open war, 

 iiaving cholen Cudjoe for their generalillimo. They continued to 

 diftrefs the ifland for about forty-feveu years; and, during this 

 time, forty-four aiRs of afiembly were palled, and at leaft 240,000/. 

 expended, for their fuppreflion. In 1730, they were grown fo 

 formidable, that it was found expedient to ftrengthen the colony 

 againfl them by two regiments of regular troops, which were af- 

 terwards formed into independent companies, and employed, with 

 other hired parties, and the whole body of militia, towards their 

 leduftion. In the year 1734, captain Stoddart, who commanded 

 one of thefe parties, projected and executed with great fuccefs aa 

 attack of their windward town, called Nanny, fituated near Car- 

 rion-crow Ridge, one of the higheft mountains in the ifland, in 

 the neighbourhood of Bath. Having provided fome portable fwi- 

 vel-guns, he fdently approached their quarters, and reached witliin 

 a fraall diflance of them undifcovered. After halting for fome 

 time, he began to alcend by the only path leading to their town. 

 He founil it fleep, rocky, and difficult, and not wide enough to ad- 

 mit the paffage of two perfons abrealT:. However, he furmounted 

 thefe obftacles; and, having gained a fmall eminence, commanding 

 the huts in which the Negroes were lodged all faft afleep, he fixed 

 his little train of artillery to the b:fl: advantage, and difcharged 

 upon them fo brifkly, that many were flain in their habitations, 

 and feveral more, amidft the confl:ernation which this furprize oc- 

 cafioned, threw themfelves headlong down precipices. Captain 

 Stoddart purfued the advantage, killed numbers, took many pri- 

 foners, and, in (hort, fo compleatly deftroyed or routed the whole 

 body, that they were unable afterwards ta effect any enterprize of 

 moment in this quarter of the ifland. 



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