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	Sir Francis Drake Revived. Paras. 200-292. Sir Francis Drake. 1909-14. Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern. The ...
		The Cimaroon perceiving this, told him, that it was night when he was sent away, so that our Captain could not send any letter, but yet with the point of his knife, he wrote something upon the toothpick, “which,” he said, “should be sufficient to gain credit to the messenger.”
		The Cimaroons being demanded also their opinion (for that they were experienced in the particularities of all the towns thereabouts, as in which some or other of them had served), declared that “by Veragua, Signior P
		Therefore using our Cimaroons most courteously, dismissing those that were desirous to their wives, with such gifts and favours as were most pleasing, and entertaining those still aboard his ship, which were contended to abide with the company remaining; the pinnaces departed as we determined: the Minion to the West, the Bear to the East.
	www.bartleby.com /33/36.html (3589 words)

	Sir Francis Drake Revived. Paras. 100-199. Sir Francis Drake. 1909-14. Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern. The ...
		We were in all forty-eight, of which eighteen only were English; the rest were Cimaroons, which beside their arms, bare every one of them, a great quantity of victuals and provision, supplying our want of carriage in so long a march, so that we were not troubled with anything but our furniture.
		As soon as we came to the place where we intended to lodge, the Cimaroons, presently laying down their burdens, fell to cutting of forks or posts, and poles or rafters, and palmito boughs, or plantain leaves; and with great speed set up to the number of six houses.
		Four of those Cimaroons that best knew the ways, went about a mile distance before us, breaking boughs as they went, to be a direction to those that followed; but with great silence, which they also required us to keep.
	www.bartleby.com /33/35.html (5407 words)

	Sir Francis Drake
		They were happy to exchange their labor and knowledge in exchange for weapons, clothing, utensils, shoes, etc. The Cimaroons were to prove crucial in keeping Drake and his men alive, and providing valuable intelligence.
		But conversations with the Cimaroons, who knew the habits of the Spanish well, convinced him that the next silver train would not be sent from Panama until after the rainy season when the next treasure fleet arrived.
		One man, a Cimaroon, had died in the attack and Captain Tetsu had suffered a mortal shot to the stomach.
	www.global-travel.co.uk /drake.htm (2685 words)

	Captain Francis Drake At Nombre De Dios (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		His Cimaroon spies had informed him that the Spanish fleet had already arrived in the port and were provisioning, which was a guarantee that the precious cargo was on its way up from the south.
		He assembled 18 of the fittest of his crew and, together with 30 of the Cimaroons, disembarked at a place 100 miles along the coast where, the spies informed him, "no Spanish dog could hinder a landing." The remainder of the crew he left to care for the sick and guard the prisoners.
		Although Drake was a soldier in the sense that he was trained for land battles and tactical manoeuvres--as indeed were all the Queen's men--his instincts were all for the sea; an overland journey in strange forested and mountainous country was for him a venture hedged about with many unfamiliar hazards.
	www.thehistorynet.com /bh/blfrancisdrake/index3.html (1264 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The town took alarm (being very ready thereto, by reason of their often disquieting by their near neighbours the Cimaroons); as we perceived, not only by the noise and cries of the people, but by the bell ringing out, and drums running up and down the town.
		But in the hills, where the air was more piercing and the nights cold, they made our rooms always lower, and thatched them close to the ground, leaving only one door to enter in, and a louvre hole for a vent, in the midst of the roof.
		Therefore using our Cimaroons most courteously, dismissing those that were desirous to their wives, with such gifts and favours as were most pleasing, and entertaining those still aboard his ship, which were contented to abide with the company remaining; the pinnaces departed as we determined: the /Minion/ to the West, the /Bear/ to the East.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/etext01/fdrvv10.txt (10743 words)

	2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Then twelve.html">twelve.html">twelve of them were as it were our Vanguard, other twelve, our those goodly and high trees, that grow there so thick, that it is the most parts of England in the summer time.
		This gave a special about the midway, from which, we might at once discern the North Sea desired hill.html">hill, a very high hill, lying East and West, like a ridge chiefest of these Cimaroons took our Captain by the hand, and prayed which he had so long longed for.
		After our Captain had ascended to this bower, with the chief Cimaroon, [breeze], a very fair day, had seen that sea.html">sea, of which he had heard give him life and leave to sail once in an English ship, in that sea!" acquainted JOHN OXNAM especially with this his petition and.
	www.explainthat.info /20/2004.html (424 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / THE TIME MACHINE
		These trains consisted of hundreds of mules hauling South American gold and silver across the isthmus to be loaded onto ships bound for the mother country.
		He found natural allies in the Cimaroons, escaped African slaves and their descendants who lived in the forest.
		(They had built the platform from which Drake viewed the Pacific.) Though precious metals were of little use to them, the Cimaroons despised the Spanish and were happy to give Drake a hand.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1998/1/1998_1_94.shtml (2042 words)

	jamaican vacation rentals
		In 1609 the Maroons, slaves of Ethiopian extraction, and other British slaves in the banana trade, escaped their tyrannical masters, marauded, hiding out in the rugged Cockscomb area of the Blues, an area that today is largely unexplored, and just getting mapped, and where the Maroons still do not welcome whites into certain regions.
		The Spanish word for runaways is Cimaroons, and in the Carib shortened to Maroons.
		For over a hundred years the Maroons and the British waged battles back and forth in the Blue Mountains, but eventually the Maroons drove the British out of the mountains and into the foothills.
	www.blueheaven-jamaican-vacation-rentals.com /long_bay_information_curiosities_jamaica_vacation_rentals.html (1118 words)

	Etext » books
		Our fort was then made, by reason of the place, trianglewise, with main timber, and earth of which the trench yielded us good store, so that we made it thirteen feet in height.
		At what time, there had died twentyeight of our men, and a few whole men were left aboard with ELLIS HIXOM to keep the ship, and attend the sick, and guard the prisoners.
		The Cimaroon perceiving this, told him, that it was night when he was sent away, so that our Captain could not send any letter, but yet with the point of his knife, he wrote something upon the toothpike, "which," he said, "should be sufficient to gain credit to the messenger."
	etext.teamnesbitt.com /books/etext/etext01/fdrvv10.txt.html (11388 words)

	SKANK-CDs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Containing classics such as "Westbound Train," "Cassandra," "Wolf and Leopards" and the relentless title track, the music on this greatest hits package sounds as fresh and exciting today as when it was first released.
		With raw backing tracks by the Soul Syndicate Band and the Cimaroons, these 18 cuts show why Brown was such an influential figure in the history of reggae.
		Few albums can compare with the vintage material on "Some Like It Hot," and this 40 minute release, backed by the rhythm team of Sly and Robbie, is no exception.
	www.skankproductions.com /dennisbrown2x.htm (264 words)

	John Oxenham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He headed the pinnace across the Golfo De Panama and sought out the river that was to take the expedition to safety.
		But the Cimaroons in the islands had several times before suffered the wrath of enraged officials at Panama.
		The night Oxenham left, some of them went in their canoes to Panama City and reported to the governor.
	www.angelfire.com /pa2/Panama2Hot/oxenham.html (599 words)

	Pirate Dictionary A-C
		This changed navigation forever by allowing sailors to stay on the correct course to their destination.
		African slaves who escaped from the Spanish and lived in the mountainous and forested areas off the Caribbean, Privateer Sir Francis Drake often employed cimaroons to help him fight against their former masters.
		To sail completely around a point, such as pirates and explorers circumnavigating the globe in search of treasure.
	www.privateerdragons.org /pirate_dictionary.html (1389 words)

	[No title]
		He gathered up reinforcements from friendly French privateers and Cimaroon rebels.
		(Cimaroons were African slaves who escaped the Spanish).
		In March 1573 he returned to Darien and finally ambushed the Silver Train at Nombre de Dios, taking a fortune in gold.
	www.goodolddays.net /pc/p/pirates_/pirates.txt (22409 words)

	Aaron Clevenstine's Paper on Drake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In those three voyages achieving intelligence on Panama from Cimaroons, (which were the names given to the escaped Negro slaves who had set up independent communities in the heart of the forest and jungles) he was finally ready to raid Panama.
		His final preparations for the voyage were made very thoroughly.
		In January 1573, the Cimaroons reported that the treasure was beginning to move.
	muweb.millersville.edu /~columbus/papers/clevenstine.html (3566 words)

	Sir Francis Drake Revived - Full Text Free Book
		Cimaroons, presently laying down their burdens, fell to cutting of
		These Cimaroons, during all the time that we were with burden, did us
		Tortugos, as the Cimaroons that went with him then named it.
	www.fullbooks.com /Sir-Francis-Drake-Revived.html (22760 words)

	28mm Meso America : Conquistadors and allies (Tlaxcallans and Tarascans)
		Slaves / Cimaroons : As slaves, these negro or half caste peoples were used by most of the European 'adventurers' in Meso-America as expendable troops.
		The Cimaroons were escaped Spanish slaves who formed their own colony and famously assisted Francis Drake in fighting their former masters.
		The first picture is of all the variants followed by a close up of the first three.
	www.outpostwargameservices.co.uk /tlax_conq.html (954 words)

	Piracy! the game - Chronofus wargames scans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		12/6/1572 - Surprise assault by Cimaroons and almost overruns the town
		Town had a platform with 6 cannon facing the harbour.
		While Drake won the battle, his nervous men quite the town without ransacking it.
	www.chronofus.net /wargames/piracy/towns/nombredios.htm (174 words)

	Jamaica : Recommended Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Jamaican Folk Tales and Oral Histories, by Laura Tanna (Institute of Jamaica Publications, 1984), is a collection culled from the best Jamaican storytelling and told with humor and style.
		The Cimaroons, by Robert Leeson (William Collins, 1978), is the story of an enslaved people who fought stubbornly for their freedom.
		Their story does not appear in many history books, yet is true and exciting.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/print-narrative.cfm?destID=93&catID=0093020052 (270 words)

	Charles Kingsley - Westward Ho! - 9 - The True And Tragical History Of Mr. John Oxenham Of Plymouth Part 2 - ...
		And now it came out (what few of us knew till then) that he had agreed with the Cimaroons that they should have all the prisoners which were taken, save the gold.
		And he, though loath, was about to give up the Spaniards to them, near forty in all, supposing that they intended to use them as slaves: but as we all stood talking, one of the Spaniards, understanding what was forward, threw himself on his knees before Mr.
		And while of the English seven were taken alive, yet of the negroes none.
	www.mastertexts.com /index.php?PageName=ChapterDetails&TitleID=876&VolumeNo=0&ChapterNo=9 (5425 words)

	Rasta and Resistance - Chapter 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This Abeng horn became the sound of warning, war, and battle among the first band of Africans whose struggles were recounted throughout the world of slavery.
		For fifty years the British tried to suppress these offspring of Africa who, like the Saramaka Maroons of Surinam and the Cimaroons of Santa Domingo, challenged the system of bondage.
		The major Maroon War in Jamaica, 1729-1739, was fought under the leadership of Cudjoe, the son of Nangua, a proud Ashanti.
	mojo.calyx.net /~olsen/RASTAFARI/CAMPBELL/chapter1.html (14087 words)

	The Ship Eaters
		If so, we'll set those men free on an island.
		At least then the poor devils will have a chance with the other Cimaroons."
		Buckle looked as if he might object, but then decided not.
	www.pulpanddagger.com /pulpmag/wiz/eaters4.html (1661 words)

	Maria Raquel Bozzi
		It was a finalist at the 1989 Athens Internatonal Film Festival.
		One year after the completion of Instructions for Crying, she returned to her hometown, Cartagena de Indias in the Caribbean, seeking to learn more about one of her childhood wonders: Palenque, the village of Black Cimaroons that for centuries have interacted with Cartagena, maintaining their African traditions.
		In Palenque, she developed community journalism workshops that generated the basis for the production of her documentary, Palenque un Canto, a unique and personal view into the life of the descendants of African rebel slaves in Palenque.
	www.newday.com /filmmakers/Maria_Raquel_Bozzi.html (367 words)

	Hidalgo
		Indeed, these societies organized their lives around natives and African cosmologies rejecting not only the European corporal subjugation, but also the ideologies of the oppressor by asserting their spiritual and intellectual independence.
		, colonial administrators saw Cimaroons as the worst of evils.
		They would make alliances with anyone they wanted, particularly the enemies of their enemies (i.e., pirates), and would keep colonial districts under unremitting terror.
	dennishidalgo.blogspot.com (12755 words)

	The High Post: May 2005
		The Spanish had found him, and he was never heard of again.
		The "cimaroons" took what they wanted, which was mostly non-treasure sort of stuff, since they lived in jungle-villages, and the English and French split the treasure in half.
		Interestingly, Drake had armed his men with bows and arrows for the journey, during which they not only struck the Camino Real twice, but struck practically every Spanish town from Mexico to Venezuela as well.
	www.thehighpost.com /weblog/2005_05_01_blogarchives.html (5815 words)

	Cimaroons; Author: Lessen, Robert; Paperback
		Paperback; 41 Illustrations, 5 Maps, Word List, Index
		A social history for secondary students of the Cimaroons - Africans transported to New World plantations as slaves but who escaped, forming isolated camps and waging guerrilla warfare against their former masters.
		Lessen was awarded the Eleanor Farjeon award for children's literature in 1985.
	www.netstoreusa.com /hjbooks/090/0904526437.shtml (171 words)

	Links
		The Foundry - They used to make a line of Elizabethans in 28mm, as listed on Tim Peterson's unofficial page here, which may one day be rereleased.
		Now they have a new line of "El Dorado" Conquistadors and in Precast Packs, Aztec Eagle knights, "Afro-Caribbean Renegades" (Cimaroons) and Elizabethan "Swashbucklers" (Sea Dogs), all about 30mm toe-to-top-of-head.
		In addition they make 29mm Pirates and Darkest Africa figues.
	home.earthlink.net /~cyberkiwi/soldiers/links2.html (1469 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Buccaneers lack troops to effectively counter cavalry, but do have
		I find aggressive tactics the only way to use this army.
		I deploy pirates with cutlass & pistol in 2 or more ranks, screen with Cimaroons
	tetrad.stanford.edu /newfiles/dbm-listV2-770.html (7581 words)

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