This was the case also in the settlement of Bencoolen in the East Indies.

It appeared from the evidence of Mr.Botham, that a number of Negros, who had been imported there in the same disproportion of the sexes as in West India cargoes, and who lived under the same disadvantages, as in the Islands, of promiscuous intercourse and general prostitution, began, after they had been settled a short time, annually to increase.
But to return to the West Indies .-- A slave-ship had been many years ago wrecked near St.Vincent's.

The slaves on board, who escaped to the island, were without necessaries; and, besides, were obliged to maintain a war with the native Caribbs: yet they soon multiplied to an astonishing number; and, according to Mr.Ottley, they were now on the increase.

From Sir John Dalrymple's evidence it appeared, that the domestic slaves in Jamaica, who were less worked than those in the field, increased; and from Mr.Long, that the free Blacks and Mulattoes there increased also.
But there was an instance which militated against these facts (and the only one in the evidence) which he would now examine.

Sir Archibald Campbell had heard, that the Maroons in Jamaica in the year 1739 amounted to three thousand men fit to carry arms.