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The Maroon
Set against the backdrop of Jamaica, the story revolves around life on a sugar estate called Mount Welcome, exploring themes of colonialism, slavery, and the supernatural.
"The Maroon" by Captain Mayne Reid is a novel. Set against the backdrop of Jamaica, the story revolves around life on a sugar estate called Mount Welcome, exploring themes of colonialism, slavery, and the supernatural.
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A sugar estate, and one of the finest in the “land of springs,” is that of “Mount Welcome.”
It is situated about ten miles from Montego Bay, in a broad valley, between two rounded ridges. These ridges, after running parallel for more than a mile, and gradually increasing in elevation, at length converge with an inward sweep—at their point of convergence, rising abruptly into a stupendous hill, that fairly merits the name which it bears upon the estate—the “mountain.”
Both the ridges are wooded almost down to their bases; the woods, which consist of shining pimento trees, ending on each side in groves and island copses, pleasantly interspersed over a park-like greensward.
The “great house” or “buff” of the estate stands under the foot of the mountain, just at the point of union between the two ridges—where a natural table or platform, elevated several feet above the level of the valley, had offered a tempting site to the builder.
In architectural style it is not very different from other houses of its kind, the well-known planter’s dwelling of the West Indies. One storey—the lower one, of course—is of strong stone mason-work; the second and only other being simply a wooden “frame” roofed with “shingles.”
The side and end walls of this second story cannot with propriety be termed walls: since most part of them are occupied by a continuous line of Venetian shutters—the “jalousies” of Jamaica.
Contents
- 01A Jamaica Sugar Estate.
- 02Volume One—Chapter Two.
- 03The Myal-Man.
- 04Volume One—Chapter Three.
- 05A Jamaica Déjeuner.
- 06Volume One—Chapter Four.
- 07Two Letters.
- 08Volume One—Chapter Five.
- 09The Slaver.
- 10Volume One—Chapter Six.
- 11Jowler and Jessuron.
- 12Volume One—Chapter Seven.
- 13The Foolah Prince.
- 14Volume One—Chapter Eight.
- 15A Handsome Offer.
- 16Volume One—Chapter Nine.
- 17Judith Jessuron.
- 18Volume One—Chapter Ten.
- 19The Sea Nymph.
- 20Volume One—Chapter Eleven.
- 21Loftus Vaughan on the Look-Out.
- 22Volume One—Chapter Twelve.
- 23Kate and Yola.
- 24Volume One—Chapter Thirteen.
- 25Quashie.
- 26Volume One—Chapter Fourteen.
- 27Travelling at the Tail.
- 28Volume One—Chapter Fifteen.
- 29A Slippery Floor.
- 30Volume One—Chapter Sixteen.
- 31The Kiosk.
- 32Volume One—Chapter Seventeen.
- 33A Bold Resolve.
- 34Volume One—Chapter Eighteen.
- 35The Encounter of the Cousins.
- 36Volume One—Chapter Nineteen.
- 37A Surly Reception.
- 38Volume One—Chapter Twenty.
- 39The Jew’s Penn.
- 40Volume One—Chapter Twenty One.
- 41A Fiery Baptism.
- 42Volume One—Chapter Twenty Two.
- 43A Couch of Silk-Cotton.
- 44Volume One—Chapter Twenty Three.
- 45The Tree Fountain.
- 46Volume One—Chapter Twenty Four.
- 47The Hog-Hunter.
- 48Volume One—Chapter Twenty Five.
- 49The Runaway.
- 50Volume One—Chapter Twenty Six.
- 51A Combat Declined.
- 52Volume One—Chapter Twenty Seven.
- 53The Maroons.
- 54Volume One—Chapter Twenty Eight.
- 55A Forest Breakfast.
- 56Volume One—Chapter Twenty Nine.
- 57Quaco.
- 58Volume One—Chapter Thirty.
- 59A Jamaica Justice.
- 60Volume One—Chapter Thirty One.
About this edition
- Author
- Mayne Reid
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 805 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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