Lives of the Lindsays, or a Memoir of the Houses of Crawford and Balcarres, Vol. 3 of 3

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Excerpt from Lives of the Lindsays, or a Memoir of the Houses of Crawford and Balcarres, Vol. 3 of 3: To Which Are Added, Extracts From the Official Correspondence of Alexander Sixth Earl of Balcarres, During the Maroon War, Together With Personal Narratives by His Brothers, the Hon. Robert, Colin, James, John, and Hugh LindsayEuropeans, and partly by the chase of the wild boar, - from which occupation they acquired the distinctive appellation of Maroons, or hog-hunters. They occupied the mountains to the North and East Of the island, and, keeping up a constant communication with the plantation negroes, became a rallying point for all the disaffected, and a thorn in the sides Of all the European settlers in that part of the country.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.