The weekly Anglo-African., 1860-02-11

Sialltu0C, luAHS 80 uSSlTdUle must De
right; thrice were they armed who knew
their Quarrel just.
But after the parting notes of gratitude
died away in the distance, the commission
er began to discover that he was to have
hard time of it. He sailed for Havana in
schooner manned with Spanish rene
gades, who insisted on fighting everything
that came in their way-frst Spanish
schooner, then French one. He landed
at Batabano, struck across the mountains
towards Havana, stopped at Besucal tocall
on the wealthy Ma a'que,a de San Felipe y
San Jorge, grand patroness of dogs and
chasseurs, and finally was welcomed to
Havana by Don Luis de las Casas, who
overlooked, for this occasion only, an in
junction of his court against admitting for
eigners within his government-"the only
accustomed exception being" as Don Luis
courteously assured him, "in favor of for
eign traders who came with new negroes"
10 be sure, the commissioner had not
brought any of these commodities, but
then he had come to obtain the means of
capturing some, and so might pass for an
irregular practitioner of the privileged pro-
fession.
Accordingly, Don Guillermo Dawes
QUARREL $50 ran his passport found no
difficulty in obtaining permission from the
governor to buy as many dogs as he de-
sired. When, however, he carelessly hint
ed at the necessity of taking, also, a few
men who should have care of the dogs
this being, after all, the essential part of
his pedition-Don Luis de las Casas put
on instantly double force of courtesy,
and assured him of the entire impossibility
Of recruiting single Spaniard for English
service. Finally, however, he gave per-
mission and passports for six chasseurs,
Under cover of this, the commissioner lost
no time in enlisting forty; he got them
safe to Batabano, but at the last moment,
learning the state of affairs, they refused
to embark on such very irregular author
ity. When he had persuaded them, at
length, the officer of the fort interposed
objections. This was not to be borne, so
Don Guillermo bribed him and silenced
him; dragoon was, however, sent to re-
port to the governor; Don Guillermo sent
a messenger after him and bribed him, too
and thus, at length, after myriad rebuffs,
and after being obliged to spend the last
evening at a puppet-show, in which the
principal figure was burlesque on his
own personal peculiarities, the weary Dor
Guillermo, with his crew of rencgades
and his forty chasseurs and their one hun
dred and four muzzled dogs, set sail foi
| Jamaica
These new allies were. certainly some
thing formidable, if we trust the pictures
and descriptions in Dallas's History: The
chasseur was a tall, neagrs,s s,s~aftbylSp
lard or mulatto, lightly clad in cotton shirt
and drawers, with broad straw hat and
moccasins of raw hide: his belt sustaining
his long, straight, fat sword or ntoehets,
like an iron bar sharpened at one end; and
he wore by the same belt three cotton
lashes for his three dogs, sometimes held
also by chains. The dogs We're fierce
breed, crossed between hound and mastih.
never unmuzzled but for attack, and &C.
companied by smaller dogs called finders
1t is no wonder, when these wild and pow
erful creatures were landed at Montego
Bay, that terror ran through the town,
doors were everywhere closed and windows
crowded, not negro dared to stir, and the
muzzled dogs, infuriated by confinement on
,hipboard, filled the silent streets with
their noisy barking and the rattling of
| their chains.
How much would have come of all this
in actual conflict does not appear. The
Maroons had already been persuaded to
guarantees--a decision probably accalera-
| ted by the terrible rumors of the blood
hounds, though they never saw them. 1t
was the declared opinion of the Assembly,
confirmed by that of General Walpole,
that nothing could be clearer than that, if
they had been off the island, the rebels
could not have been induced to surrender"
Nevertheless, treaty was at last made,
without the direct Intervention of the
quadrupeds. Again commissioners went
up among the mountains to treat with ne
gotiators at first invisible; again were hats
and jackets interchanged, not without coy
reluctance on the part of the well-dressed
Englishmen; and solemn agreement was
effected. The most essential part of the
bargain was guarantee of continued indie
pendence, demanded by the suspicious Ma
rooms. General Walpole, however, prompt
ly pledged himself that no such unfair ad-
vantage should be taken of them as had
occurred with the hostage previously sur
rendered, who were placed in irons, nor
should any attempt be made to remove
them from the island. II is painful to add,
that this promise was outrageously violated
by the Colonial government, to the lasting
grief of General Walpole, ON the ground
that the Maroons had violated the treaty
by slight want of punctuality in comply
ing with its terms, and by remissness in re-
storing the fugitive slaves who had taken
refuge among them. As many Of the tribe
as surrendered, therefore, were at once
placed in confinement, and ultimately ship
ped from Port Royal to Halifax, to the
number of six hundred, on the 9th of June,
1896. For the credit of English honor,
we rejoice to know that General Walpole