It turned out, at last, that only two or three of the Maroons wereconcerned in this remarkable defiance; but meanwhile it had its effect.Several ambassadors were sent among the insurgents, and were so favorablyimpressed by their reception as to make up a subscription of money fortheir hosts, on departing; only the "gallant Col. Gallimore," a JamaicaCamillus, gave iron instead of platinum, by throwing some bullets into thecontribution-box. And it was probably in accordance with his view of thesubject, that, when the Maroons sent ambassadors in return, they were atonce imprisoned, most injudiciously and unjustly; and when 0ld Montaguhimself and thirty-seven others, following, were seized and imprisonedalso, it is not strange that the Maroons, joined by many slaves, weresoon in open insurrection.