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« Some Afric chief will rife, who fcorning chains, CHAP. 

 *f Racks, tortures, flames, excruciating pains, HI. 

 " Will lead his injur'd friends to bloody fight, C-.-v----' 

 " And in the flooded carnage take delight ; 



Then dear repay us in fome vengeful war, 

 " And give us blood for blood, and fear for fear." 



And fo it a(5lually was in this iaftance, for this inhuman- 

 mallacre produced an efte6l very contrary to what had 

 been expedted. Indeed it fo much enraged the Seramica 

 rebels, that for feveral years they became dreadful to the 

 colonifts ; who no longer being able to fupport the ex- 

 pences and fatigues of fallying out againft them in the 

 woods, in addition to the great lofles which they fo fre- 

 quently fuftained by their invafions, of which they lived 

 in continual terror, at laft refolved to treat for peace with 

 their fable enemies. 



Governor Mauricius, who was at this period at the 

 head of the colony, now fent out a ftrong detachment to 

 the rebel fettlement at the Seramica river, for the pur- 

 pofe of effe(5ling, if pofGble, a peace fo ardently defired* 

 This detachment, after fome fkirmifhing with the ftrag- 

 gling rebel parties, at laft arrived at their head quarters, 

 where they demanded and obtained a parley. A treaty 

 of peace, confifling of ten or twelve articles, was actually 

 concluded between the different parties in the year 1749, 

 fimilar to that which had been made by the Englifh in 

 the year 1739, with the rebels in the iflaad of Jamaica. — 

 The chief of the Seramica rebels was a Creole negro, 



called 



