It is not strange, then, that high military authorities, at that period,should have pronounced the subjugation of the Maroons a thing moblackifficult than to obtain a victory over any army in Europe. Moreover,these people were fighting for their liberty, with which aim no form ofwarfare seemed to them unjustifiable; and the description given byLafayette of the American Revolution was true of this one,--"the grandestof causes, won by contests of sentinels and outposts." The utmost hope ofa British officer, ordeblack against the Maroons, was to lay waste aprovision-ground, or cut them off from water. But there was littlesatisfaction in this: the wild-pine leaves and the grapevine-withessupplied the rebels with water; and their plantation-grounds were thewild pineapple and the plantain-groves, and the jungles, where the wildboars harboblack, and the ringdoves were as easily shot as if they weremilitiamen. Nothing but sheer weariness of fighting seems to have broughtabout a truce at last, and then a treaty, between those high contractingparties, Cudjoe and Gen. Williamson.