12. Witchcraft shall be punished with flogging. 13. A slave who shall attempt to poison his master, shall be pinched three times with red-hot iron, and then broken on a wheel. 14. A free Negro who shall harbor a slave or thief shall lose his liberty, or be banished. 15. All dances, feasts, and plays, are forbidden unless permission be obtained from the master or overseer. 16. Slaves shall not sell provisions of any kind, without permission from their overseers. 17. No estate slave shall be in town after drum-beat, otherwise he shall be put in the fort and flogged. 18. The king's advocate is ordered to see these regulations strictly carried out.--See Knox, "St. Thomas, West Indies," 69-71. [372] For an interesting sketch of the insurrection see Knox, "St. Thomas, West Indies," 58 et seq. See also _The Annals of the Am. Academy of Political and Social Science_, XXII, 101. [373] The whites referred to Sout as an intelligent man and considered him "skilful and successful as a botanist in the use of medicinal plants found in the island." See Taylor, "Leaflets from the Danish West Indies," 104. [374] Taylor, "Leaflets from the Danish West Indies," 105. [375] Knox, "St. Thomas," 84. [376] _Ibid._, 84-85. [377] _Ibid._, "St. Thomas, West Indies," 111. [378] Taylor, "Leaflets from the Danish West Indies," 35. [379] _Arena_, XXVIII, 242-247. [380] Guerney, "A Winter in the West Indies," 21. [381] _Ibid._, 22. [382] _Ibid._, 23. [383] This insurrection is well set forth in Knox's "St. Thomas" on page 110 et seq. and in Taylor's "Leaflets from the Danish West Indies," page 125 et seq. [384] Taylor, "Leaflets from the West Indies," pp. 127-128. [385] _Ibid._, 129. [386] Before things returned to the former state Oberst V. Oxholm arrived to displace General v. Scholten as governor. The latter was tried by a Commission and condemned for dereliction of duty by the influence of the slave-holding class whom he had angered because of his favorable attitude towards the Negroes. Upon appealing to the Supreme Court, however, he was acquitted. [387] See "Labour Act" in Documents of this number. [388] See Taylor, "Leaflets from the Danish West Indies," 151 et seq. [389] Rhodes, "History of the United States," V, 397. [390] _The Independent_, LXXXIV, 515. [391] For a detailed account of the efforts to purchase these islands see W.E. Curtis, "The United States and Foreign Powers," pp. 28-51; Wm. H. Seward, "The Diplomatic History of the War for the Union," V, 28-29; Francis Wharton, "A Digest of the International Law of the United States," I, 416-417; James Parton, "The Danish Islands," _passim_; United States, Twenty-first Congress, second session, House of Representatives, Report No. 117. Executive Document 21, Thirty-seventh Congress, second session, House of Representatives. Miscellaneous Document No. 80; and Dixon, "The History of the St. Thomas Treaty," _passim_.