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renders extremely uncertain. In fhort, throughout tlieir whole 

 manoeuvres, they fkip about like fo many monkies [q'j. When, 

 this part of their exercife was over, they drew their Twords; and, 

 winding their horn again, they began, in wild and warlike cnpers, 

 to advance towards his excellency, endeavouring to throw as much 

 ravage fury into their looks as poffible. On approaching near him, 

 fome, with a horrid, circling flourifh, waved their rufty blades 

 over his head, then gently laid tliem upon it ; whiHl others clafhed 

 their arms together in horrid concert. They next brought their 

 mulkets, and piled them up in heaps at his (est, which fome of 

 them defired to kifs, and were permitted. By way of clofing the 

 ceremony, their leader, captain Cudjoe, in the name of all the reft, 

 flood forth, and addrefled his excellency aloud, deliring the conti- 

 nuance of the great king George's fivour and prote>Stion ; and that 

 his excellency, as his vice-gerent, would adminlfter right and 

 juftice to them, according to the happy treaty and agreement fub- 

 fifting between them and the white people of the tfland. 



To this the governor replied, that they might depend upon the 

 favour and proteftion of the great king George ; and of his own 

 conftant endeavours likewife, that right and juftice flTOuld be always 

 done them ; and alfo, that he would take c;ire, that the good un- 

 derftanding, then fo happily fubfifting between the white inhabi- 

 tants and them, fiiould inviolably be preferved; provided that they, 

 on their parts, continued to be always active and ready in obeying 

 their commanding officer, and doing whatever elfe they had, in the 

 treaty, folemnly promifed to perform. To this they all aftented ; 

 and then, having a dinner ordered for them, and a prefent of. three 

 cows, were difmiiTed, and went away perfeclly well latisfied. 



I have no certain account of the number of thefe Negroes in 

 their feveral towns at prefent ; but the following was tlie ftate of 

 them in the year 1749 [r]. 



[1;] A b'jcanicr hi fiorlan tells us, that, having 'landed with a parry at Cofta Rica, the toil at" 

 ftwotJns was fulhcieiitly compenfated with the pleafure of killing the monkies ; for at thcle they - 

 ufually made fifteen or iixteen fhot, before they could kill three or four ; fo nimbly did they elude 

 their hands and aim, even after being much wounded: and that it was high fun \.o fee the females 

 carp,- their little ones on their backs, juft as the Negroes do their children. 



[;■] According to a late return, the Negroes of Moore Town are increafed to two hundred ; but 

 the whole number of fighting men does not exceed one hundrcil and fifty ; and the vvhole number 

 of Negroes in alt tlietowus li not augmented much beyond the above lill ot the year 1749- 



7 Totals.. 



