Also Annual Register, etc.

[The best account of the present condition of the Maroons, or, as they
are now called, bush-negroes, of Surinam, is to be found in a graphic
narrative of a visit to Dutch Guiana, by W. G. Palgrave, in the
_Fortnightly Review_, xxiv. 801; xxv. 194, 536. These papers are
reprinted in _Littell's Living Age_, cxxviii. 154, cxxix. 409. He
estimates the present numbers of these people as approaching thirty
thousand. The "Encyclopaedia Britannica" gives the names of several
publications relating to their peculiar dialect, popularly known as
Negro-English, but including many Dutch words.]

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GABRIEL'S DEFEAT

The materials for the history of Gabriel's revolt are still very
fragmentary, and must be sought in the contemporary newspapers. No
continuous file of Southern newspapers for the year 1800 was to be found,
when this narrative was written, in any Boston or New-York library,
though the Harvard-College Library contained a few numbers of the
Baltimore _Telegraphe_ and the Norfolk _Epitome of the Times_. My chief
reliance has therefore been the Southern correspondence of the Northern
newspapers, with the copious extracts there given from Virginian
journals. I am chiefly indebted to the Philadelphia _United-States
Gazette_, the Boston _Independent Chronicle_, the Salem _Gazette_ and
_Register_, the New-York _Daily Advertiser_, and the Connecticut
_Courant_. The best continuous narratives that I have found are in the
_Courant_ of Sept. 29, 1800, and the Salem _Gazette_ of Oct. 7, 1800; but
even these are very incomplete. Several important documents I have been