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( 10 ) negroes, as before, ruſhed upon their guns, but the Maroons firing as hey retreated, kept them at bay and made great ſlaughter. Jack in vain encouraged his men he could not rouſe them to the combat, and they fled in every direction.

Next day the Governor publiſhed a proclamation, offering a free pardon to ſuch of the inſurgents as would return to their duty. This had the deſired effect; for they all returned, except Jack, who fill determined to haraſs the Europeans. He again repaired to the cave of Amalkir, who hung an obi horn about his neck, rare for its ſuppoſed virtues.

Dr. Moſely, in his Treatiſe on Sugar, ſays- "I ſaw the obi of the famous negro robber, Three Finger'd Jack, the terror of Jamaica, in 1780- The Maroon who flew him brought it me. It conſiſted of a goat's horn filled with a compound of grave dirt, aſhes, the blood of a black cat, and human fat, all mixed into a kind of paſte: a cat's foot, a dried toad, a pig's tail, a flip of virginal parchment of kid-ſkin, with characters marked with blood on it, were alſo in his obian bag- Theſe, with a keen ſabre, and two guns, were all his obi; with which, and his courage in deſcending into the plains, and plundering to ſupply his wants and his ſkill in retreating into difficult faſtneſſes, among the mountains, commanding the only access to them, where none dared to follow him, he terrified the inhabitants, and ſet the civil power and the neighbouring militia of the iſland at defiance, for near two years.

It would be tedious to enumerate all the exploits of this famous robber: we ſhall therefore only relate a few of the most prominent. One day, as Jack was reconnoitring on the top of Lebanus, he beheld a negro beneath, armed, and bearing proviſions. L ck ruſhed down the mountains.