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to be imagined iiow they will trace and find out each other 

 in these solitary and desolate Woods and Desarts, where 

 there are no Roads to guide, or any humane Creature to tell 

 the way. They are also very expeditious in finding out the 

 Negroes that frequently run away from their Masters into 

 the Woods, where they commit many outrages against the 

 Christians, as it happened in Virginia not long since, where 

 above three Hundred joined together, and did a great deal 

 of Mischief in that Province before they were suppressed. 

 The Indian Kings are sent for on these Occasions, who soon 

 find out their Haunts, and commonly kill many of them 

 whenever they are sent in pursuit after them, for they never 

 cease pursuing 'till they destroy or hunt them out of the 

 Woods : this they will do in the tenth part of the Time that 

 the Europeans could do. These Negroes whenever they find 

 the Indians in pursuit of them, they return, and chuse rather 

 to submit to the Christians, whom they have injured, than 

 fall into the Hands of the others, who have a natural aver- 

 sion to the Negroes, and take Pleasure in putting them to 

 the most exquisite Torments, when ever they find them thus 

 in the Woods, being allowed so to do by the Christians. 



I saw four and twenty of these Negroes hanged in Vir- 

 ginia, for conspiring against their Masters, who had taken 

 Sanctuary in the Woods for some time before they were 

 discovered, or hunted out by the Indians, who are very ser- 

 viceable to the Christians in those Parts, and many other 

 Provinces in the hands of the English. 



Another Instance of this ISTature happened not many Years 

 ago in this Province; some of our neighbouring Indians 

 made their Complaint to the Governor, that two Indians 

 from the Mountains came to their Town when they were 

 abroad, and had taken one of their Wives by surprize, and 



carried 



