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They still retained much of their African savagery, were illiterate, 

 and no attempt was made to Christianize them. Their language was 

 a conglomerate of African dialects and Spanish, with a sprinkling of 

 English and French. They had fetish and obeah rites and ceremon- 

 ies. Polygamy obtained, the husbands living in turn two days with 

 each wife. As to the poor wives, the labour imposed on them and 

 the miseries of their situation left them little leisure to quarrel with 

 each other. A white su])erintendent lived in each of the INIaroon 

 towns as a magistrate and the means of communication with the 

 ■whites and the Government, and he with the chief men had judicial 

 power in ordinary cases. Cases of felony were reserved for the 

 regular magistrates and courts with white judges. 



By 1795 the Trelawney Maroons numbered about 1,400 ; then the 

 second war began, Lord Balcarres being Governor. Montague was 

 the leading Maroon chief ; the English Colonels Sandford and Galli- 

 more and many men were slain. Blackshot Indians were hired again 

 to aid the redcoats, of whom there were more than 1,000, and the 

 militia. Still the war lasted with much loss and expense to the 

 island. 



Col. Quarrell had heard of the Chasseurs and their famous dogs 

 used in Cuba to track and secure marauders and runaways both white 

 and black. After much discussion the colonel was dispatched in a 

 vessel to Cuba, and secured 40 Chasseurs and 100 dogs, with which 

 he returned. The effect their arrival had on the Maroons was wonder- 

 ful. The dogs were not even let loose, but were paraded with the 

 soldiers. The terror they excited, added to weariness of the struggle, 

 led the insurgents to gradually come in and submit. All who had 

 not surrendered by a certain day, six hundred in number were, as 

 they came in, sent off to Montego Bay and Spanish Town under guard. 

 The war had cost the island $1,000,000. The Legislature voted 

 .$100,000 more, and ordered the 600 to be banished from Jamaica. 

 Colonel Quarrell and Mr. Ouchterlony were put in command of the 

 three ships which carried them and their guard of redcoats, and so 

 they came to Halifiix. Colonel Quarrell had recently travelled in 

 Upper Canada, in which Governor Simcoe was then extending a 

 system of self-government. The Colonel praised the Governor's 

 administration, and told the Jamaica people of the large cultivated 



