dary. To attempt to put down the rebels by force
of arms might lead to the sanguinary results of sixty years before. But it
was remembered that in the former war the use of dogs had proved very
advantageous, so agents were now sent to Cuba to purchase a pack of
bloodhounds. Thus the methods employed by the Spaniards against the
Indians two centuries before were once more brought into use. One hundred
hounds were bought and with them came forty Cuban huntsmen, mostly
mulattoes. As it proved, the very news of the coming of the hounds had the
desired effect, the Maroons being apparently much more afraid of these
ferocious dogs than of trained soldiers. At any rate, they immediately
sued for peace, and, as an old historian tells us, "It is pleasing to
observe that not a drop of blood was spilt after the dogs arrived in the
island." Peace was made within a week, and in the next year the chief
offenders were sent to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and put at work on the
fortifications. They were afterwards sent to Liberia.

From that time forward there was no trouble with the Maroons. Their
descendants still dwell in the island as a separate people. In 1865 there
was an outbreak among the free blacks, slavery having been abolished
thirty years before. The Maroons were called upon to help the troops put
down this revolt. They responded cheerfully and rendered useful aid in the
brief conflict. When it was over the black warriors were invited to
Kingston, the capital, where the whites of that city had their first sight
of the redoubtable Maroons. Black and brawny, they had the dignified
carriage of men who had always been free and independent, while some of
them wore with pride silver medals which their ancestors had been given
for former aid to the whites. Once a terror to Jamaica, the Maroons are
now among its most trusty inhabitants.

TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE AND THE REVOLUTION IN HAYTI.

The people of Europe have not stood alone in settling and ruling America,
for the blacks of Africa, brought to the New World as slaves, have made
themselves masters of one of the largest and most fertile islands of the
West Indies, that attractive gem of the tropics which, under the name of
Hispaniola, was the pioneer among Spanish dominions on American soil.

Hispaniola has had a strange and cruel history. The Spaniards enslaved its
original inhabitants and treated them so ruthlessly that they were soon
annihilated. Then the island was fille