“The Prince was struck with the fine appearance of the black men, but the citizens had heard of how Jamaica had been harried by its black banditti, and were unwilling at first to have them added to their population.” They worked at the fortifications that were being erected to meet the threatened attack of the French fleet under Richery; and Maroon Hill, near Halifax, still bears their name. But the settlement of the Maroons in Nova Scotia was ill-conceived and ill-controlled, and they, being themselves unwilling to work, and both Jamaica and Nova Scotia unwilling to keep them in idleness, followed in 1800 those “loyal negroes” of the United States who had migrated first to Canada and then to Sierra Leone. In the transport _Asia_ 550 of them reached Sierra Leone, where, as no particular place could be secured for their location, efforts to obtain an island having failed, they were allotted a place in Granville Town, under a superintendent, Lieutenant Odburn. The “Settlers’ Rising” was in progress when they arrived, and they assisted in quelling it. Soon after the Trelawny Town Maroons were transported from Jamaica, barracks were erected on the site of their old town, and regiments of British troops were maintained there until the middle of the nineteenth century, when they were withdrawn at the time of the Crimean war. Trelawny Town was for a time the headquarters of the troops stationed in the county of Cornwall, but it later was superseded by Falmouth. The barracks at Trelawny Town have fallen into ruins, but the evidence of the residents in the neighbourhood of a number of white soldiers in the past exists in some of the peasantry there to-day. In 1839 Maroon Town was made the site of a sanatorium for European troops, and huts were erected there for the purpose, and the 68th Regiment was stationed there.