ted of a crime, he can be tried by
torture.

10. A slave meeting a white person, shall step aside, and wait
until he passes; if not, he may be flogged.

11. No slave shall be permitted to come to town with clubs or
knives, nor fight with each other, under penalty of fifty
stripes.

12. Witchcraft shall be punished with flogging.

13. A slave who shall attempt to poison his master, shall be
pinched three times with red-hot iron, and then broken on a
wheel.

14. A free Negro who shall harbor a slave or thief shall lose his
liberty, or be banished.

15. All dances, feasts, and plays, are forbidden unless
permission be obtained from the master or overseer.

16. Slaves shall not sell provisions of any kind, without
permission from their overseers.

17. No estate slave shall be in town after drum-beat, otherwise
he shall be put in the fort and flogged.

18. The king's advocate is ordered to see these regulations
strictly carried out.--See Knox, "St. Thomas, West Indies,"
69-71.

[372] For an interesting sketch of the insurrection see Knox, "St.
Thomas, West Indies," 58 et seq. See also _The Annals of the Am.
Academy of Political and Social Science_, XXII, 101.

[373] The whites referred to Sout as an intelligent man and considered
him "skilful and successful as a botanist in the use of medicinal
plants found in the island." See Taylor, "Leaflets from the Danish
West Indies," 104.

[374] Taylor, "Leaflets from the Danish West Indies," 105.

[375] Knox, "St. Thomas," 84.

[376] _Ibid._, 84-85.

[377] _Ibid._, "St. Thomas, West Indies," 111.

[378] Taylor, "Leaflets from the Danish West Indies," 35.

[379] _Arena_, XXVIII, 242-247.

[380] Guerney, "A Winter in the West Indies," 21.

[381] _Ibid._, 22.

[382] _Ibid._, 23.

[383] This insurrection is well set forth in Knox's "St. Thomas" on
page 110 et seq. and in Taylor's "Leaflets from the Danish West
Indies," page 125 et seq.

[384] Taylor, "Leaflets from the West Indies," pp. 127-128.

[385] _Ibid._, 129.

[386] Before things returned to the former state Oberst V. Oxholm
arrived to displace General v. Scholten as governor. The latter was
tried by a Commission and condemned for dereliction of duty by the
influence of the slave-holding class whom he had angered because of
his favorable attitude towards the Negroes. Upon appealing to the
Supr