The Maroon
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Reid Mayne. The Maroon
Volume One – Chapter One. A Jamaica Sugar Estate
Volume One – Chapter Two. The Myal-Man
Volume One – Chapter Three. A Jamaica Déjeuner
Volume One – Chapter Four. Two Letters
Volume One – Chapter Five. The Slaver
Volume One – Chapter Six. Jowler and Jessuron
Volume One – Chapter Seven. The Foolah Prince
Volume One – Chapter Eight. A Handsome Offer
Volume One – Chapter Nine. Judith Jessuron
Volume One – Chapter Ten. The Sea Nymph
Volume One – Chapter Eleven. Loftus Vaughan on the Look-Out
Volume One – Chapter Twelve. Kate and Yola
Volume One – Chapter Thirteen. Quashie
Volume One – Chapter Fourteen. Travelling at the Tail
Volume One – Chapter Fifteen. A Slippery Floor
Volume One – Chapter Sixteen. The Kiosk
Volume One – Chapter Seventeen. A Bold Resolve
Volume One – Chapter Eighteen. The Encounter of the Cousins
Volume One – Chapter Nineteen. A Surly Reception
Volume One – Chapter Twenty. The Jew’s Penn
Volume One – Chapter Twenty One. A Fiery Baptism
Volume One – Chapter Twenty Two. A Couch of Silk-Cotton
Volume One – Chapter Twenty Three. The Tree Fountain
Volume One – Chapter Twenty Four. The Hog-Hunter
Volume One – Chapter Twenty Five. The Runaway
Volume One – Chapter Twenty Six. A Combat Declined
Volume One – Chapter Twenty Seven. The Maroons
Volume One – Chapter Twenty Eight. A Forest Breakfast
Volume One – Chapter Twenty Nine. Quaco
Volume One – Chapter Thirty. A Jamaica Justice
Volume One – Chapter Thirty One. An Unexpected Patron
Volume One – Chapter Thirty Two. A Plotting Parent
Volume One – Chapter Thirty Three. Another of the Same
Volume One – Chapter Thirty Four. A Sweetheart Expected
Volume One – Chapter Thirty Five. A Love Scene under the Ceiba
Volume Two – Chapter One. Smythje in Shooting Costume
Volume Two – Chapter Two. A Cockney Sportsman
Volume Two – Chapter Three. Stalking a Turkey
Volume Two – Chapter Four. Smythje Embarrassed by his Boots
Volume Two – Chapter Five. A Tropic Shower
Volume Two – Chapter Six. A Dangerous Dance
Volume Two – Chapter Seven. Quashie in a Quandary
Volume Two – Chapter Eight. A Scarcity of Trousers
Volume Two – Chapter Nine. Herbert in the Happy Valley
Volume Two – Chapter Ten. In Search of Justice
Volume Two – Chapter Eleven. Magistrate and Maroon
Volume Two – Chapter Twelve. The Smythje Eclipse
Volume Two – Chapter Thirteen. A Proposal Postponed
Volume Two – Chapter Fourteen. The Obscuration
Volume Two – Chapter Fifteen. An Encounter of Eyes
Volume Two – Chapter Sixteen. The Smythje Ball
Volume Two – Chapter Seventeen. After the Ball
Volume Two – Chapter Eighteen. Paving the Way
Volume Two – Chapter Nineteen. The Duppy’s Hole
Volume Two – Chapter Twenty. Chakra, the Myal-Man
Volume Two – Chapter Twenty One. The Resurrection
Volume Two – Chapter Twenty Two. The Love-Spell
Volume Two – Chapter Twenty Three. Chakra Redivivus
Volume Two – Chapter Twenty Four. The Bargain of Obeah
Volume Two – Chapter Twenty Five. The Mysterious Motive
Volume Two – Chapter Twenty Six. The Death-Spell
Volume Two – Chapter Twenty Seven. The Invocation of Accompong
Volume Two – Chapter Twenty Eight. Midnight Wanderers
Volume Two – Chapter Twenty Nine. Tracking the Strollers
Volume Two – Chapter Thirty. Cynthia in the Way
Volume Two – Chapter Thirty One. Strange Disclosures
Volume Two – Chapter Thirty Two. A Stormy Scene
Volume Two – Chapter Thirty Three. Where Next?
Volume Two – Chapter Thirty Four. A Dark Compact
Volume Two – Chapter Thirty Five. Stalking the Sleeper
Volume Two – Chapter Thirty Six. A Mission for the Man-Hunters
Volume Three – Chapter One. A Startling Summons
Volume Three – Chapter Two. Blue Dick
Volume Three – Chapter Three. The Mysterious Absence
Volume Three – Chapter Four. A Shadowed Spirit
Volume Three – Chapter Five. The Stirrup-Cup
Volume Three – Chapter Six. The Horn Signal
Volume Three – Chapter Seven. Quaco’s Queer Encounter
Volume Three – Chapter Eight. An Uncle in Danger
Volume Three – Chapter Nine. An Equestrian Excursion
Volume Three – Chapter Ten. Smythje among the Statues
Volume Three – Chapter Eleven. A Strange Determination
Volume Three – Chapter Twelve. A Jealous Reconnoissance
Volume Three – Chapter Thirteen. A Spy in Ambush
Volume Three – Chapter Fourteen. A Fell Purpose Defeated
Volume Three – Chapter Fifteen. Cynthia’s Report
Volume Three – Chapter Sixteen. A Day of Conjectures
Volume Three – Chapter Seventeen. The Sick Traveller
Volume Three – Chapter Eighteen. A Hideous Intruder
Volume Three – Chapter Nineteen. Two Speculative Travellers
Volume Three – Chapter Twenty. No Blood
Volume Three – Chapter Twenty One. The Capture of the Caçadores
Volume Three – Chapter Twenty Two. A Double Murder
Volume Three – Chapter Twenty Three. Chakra on the Back Track
Volume Three – Chapter Twenty Four. The Vigil of Love and the Vigil of Jealousy
Volume Three – Chapter Twenty Five. Cynthia in Trouble
Volume Three – Chapter Twenty Six. A Fatal Sneeze
Volume Three – Chapter Twenty Seven. Chakra Trimming his Lamp
Volume Three – Chapter Twenty Eight. Setting the Signal
Volume Three – Chapter Twenty Nine. The Cry of the Solitaire
Volume Three – Chapter Thirty. A Sad Procession
Volume Three – Chapter Thirty One. The Abduction
Volume Three – Chapter Thirty Two. Burglars! Robbers! Murderers!
Volume Three – Chapter Thirty Three. Dread Conjectures
Volume Three – Chapter Thirty Four. Smythje Still Living
Volume Three – Chapter Thirty Five. On the Track of the Destroyer
Volume Three – Chapter Thirty Six. Too Late
Volume Three – Chapter Thirty Seven. The Corpse of a Cousin
Volume Three – Chapter Thirty Eight. The Sleep-Spell
Volume Three – Chapter Thirty Nine. A New Job for Chakra
Volume Three – Chapter Forty. Dead, or Asleep?
Volume Three – Chapter Forty One. Quaco Turned Myal-Man
Volume Three – Chapter Forty Two. The Rescue
Volume Three – Chapter Forty Three. Down the Mountain
Volume Three – Chapter Forty Four. An Orphan
Volume Three – Chapter Forty Five. An Involuntary Suicide
Volume Three – Chapter Forty Six. Quaco in Ambush
Volume Three – Chapter Forty Seven. The Doom of Destiny
Volume Three – Chapter Forty Eight. Conclusion
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In the West Indies, a few years previous to the Emancipation, there was much agitation on the subject of Obeah-ism.
The practice of this horrid art had become appallingly common – so common that upon almost every extensive estate in the island there was a “professor” of it; in other words, an “Obeah-man.” “Professor,” though often used in speaking of these charlatans, is not a correct title. To have professed it – at least in the hearing of the whites – would have been attended with peril: since it was punishable by the death penalty. Practitioner is a more appropriate appellation.
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Kate took up the rejected letter; and, smoothing out the paper, ran her eye over the contents.
The perusal did not require much time: for considering that the letter had made such a long journey, its contents were of the shortest: —
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