348 JAMAICA. 



different meafure of conduft will neceffarily render them difcon- 

 tented and troublefome. 



Tedious and expenfive as the war was, which continued for fo 

 many years before they could be brought to terms, the event was 

 very happy for the ifland. The multitude of parties kept on foot, 

 to inveft their quarters, led to the difcovery of various tracts of 

 exceedingly fine land, unknown before. Many of thefe were 

 brought into cultivation foon after they were reduced; and the 

 roads, which were cut from time to time through the woods, for 

 the better carrying on of military operations, were in confequence 

 found of great ufe to the new fettlers, for carriage of their goods. 

 The treaty, moreover, gave a fecurity to young beginners in the 

 remote parts, even againfh any machinations of their own ilaves : 

 fo that this conteft, which, while it lafted, feemed to portend no- 

 thing lefs than the ruin of the whole colony, became produftive 

 of quite contrary efFefls in the end; infomuch that we may dare 

 the flourifliing (hite of it from the ratification of the treaty; ever 

 lince which, the ifland has been increafing in plantations and opu- 

 lence. 



Their manner of engaging with an enemy has fomething too 

 fingular in it to be palled over. In the year 1764, when governor 

 Lyttelton palled through St. James parifli on his leeward tour, the 

 Trelawny Marons attended him at Mont ego Bay, to the number of 

 eighty-four, men, women, and children. After the white militia 

 belonging to the parifh were reviewed, the fencible men of the. 

 black party drew up, impatient to fliew their martial (kill. No 

 fooner did their horn found the fignal, than they all joined in a 

 mod hideous yell, or war-hoop, and bounded into a£lion. With 

 amazing agility, they literally ran and rolled through their various 

 firings and evolutions. This part of their exercife, indeed, more 

 juftly deferves to be flyled evolution than any that is pradifed by^ 

 the regular troops; for they fire (looping almoll to the very ground; 

 and no fooner is their piece difcharged, than they throw themfelves 

 into a thoufand antic geftures, and tumble over and over, fo as to 

 be continually fnifting their place; the intention of which is, to 

 elude the fliot, as well as to deceive the aim of their adverfaries, 

 which their nimble and almofl: inftantaneous change of pofition 



renders 



