...could not . distinguish ; and their hearing was to wonderfully quick, that it enabled tu elude the most active pursuers ; they were seldom surprised....one another by means of horns ; and when these could scarcely be heard by other people, they distinguished the orders that the sounds conveyed. It is very...

...superior degree. They were accustomed, from habit, to discover in the woods, objects, which white people, of the best sight, could not distinguish, and their...one another by means of horns, and, when these could scarcely be heard by other people, they distinguished the orders that the sounds conveyed. It is very...

...superior degree. They were accustomed, from habit, to discover in the woods, objects, which white people, of the best sight, could not distinguish, and their...one another by means of horns, and, when these could scarcely be heard by other people, they distinguished the orders that the sounds conveyed. It is very...

...Jamaica — in which one of his ancestors took part— Lord Lindsay says that "their (the maroons) hearing was so wonderfully quick that it enabled them to elude their most active pursuers." When these two leading senses are thus developed in the struggle for existence, it is not surprising...

...superior degree. They were accustomed to discover from habit in the woods objects which white people of the best sight could not distinguish, and their...enabled them to elude their most active pursuers. "In character, language and manners, they resembled those Negroes on the estates of the planters that...