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Usage examples of maroons.

The maroons were feared even more than mestizo road agents because they were not only bigger and stronger but had suffered more abuse than half-castes.

It's said that one of the maroons grabbed a baby from a woman's arms, smashed its skull on a rock, and carried off the woman on a stolen pack animal.

And the stories grow and grow of the savageness of the maroons until one has to wonder whether those parts of the tales grew in the telling, too.

I hoped, of course, that the Yanga of the maroons was a different man than the Yanga I had helped free, but I remember the plantation owner chortling over the slave's claim that he had been a prince.

I assumed they were maroons, a highwaymen gang of escaped slaves, and I was half right.

Between fear of the Maroons and fear of the Chinaman, the whole island is in such a panic that a mere smuggler is the most regligible of trivialities.

They'll be heading this way by the day after tomorrow at the latest, to guard the town and harbor against the escaped Maroons in case of an outright rebellion.

An arrogant, warlike people, brought to the islands as slaves, the Maroons knew the jungles far better than their white captors.

The British sovereign, George the First had offered the Maroons their independence, with a treaty'that guaranteed the Cock Pit territories in perpetuity.

If the Colonel of the Maroons was the sole contact with the Halidon, the decision to make that contact would not be lightly arrived at.

He believed he was carrying out the wishes of a dissident faction of Maroons conspiring with a group of north-coast landowners.

He can go among them and among the maroons as I could not, for they would tell me nothing.

The maroons, although few of them were about, were regarded with awe and respect by the other blacks.

They knew now of the maroons, our good friends, and they were no match for them by night.

As it went off, she turned and one of the maroons hit her in the head.