| DATA.TEXT | Tallone of Boegies, a convict living in the slave
lodge, had been working in the wine cellars too, but apparently
had occasion to go to the pomp behind the Castle where he
began organizing his escape plot. He and the slaves who
gathered under his leadership planned to run away to the free
Negro land in Madagascar. In his confession, Pomade of
Makassar, a slave of the soldier Nicolaas van Blerk, admitted
that he had known Tallone in Batavia and upon meeting up
with him at the Cape, had agreed throw in his lot with his old
friend. The eleven fugitives were captured by a commando
which had been gathered for the purpose of pursuing the
runaway slaves not more than a few miles from the town at Jan
Biesjes Kraal just over the Salt River. |
