Sentence:  Of the slaves that had joined the Maroons, the whole number appeared to have come from a few adjacent plantations and <WSD>polinks</WSD>; 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A plot of land on a hill near a plantation, alotted to enslaved people for growing food.<ref>Benjamin Núñez, "Dictionary of Afro-Latin American Civilization," Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1980, p.(nbsp)387,[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofafro0000nune]</ref>