Of course, they were all outlaws; their hand against every man, and every man's hand against them; and of late--that is to say, within a year or so of the time of which I am now writing--they had adopted a policy of sallying forth from their mountain retreats at irregular intervals, attacking isolated plantations, looting and destroying the buildings, and either murdering or carrying off captive the whites; their avowed intention being to terrorise and drive every white person off the island and make it their own.
