Meanwhile, let us open the gazette from Spanish Town, Jamaica:
Trafalgar, November 12, 1808. RUNAWAYS.
JUDDY, a middle aged creole wench, a great higgler, marked $S$ on one shoulder, yellow complexion, and pitted with the small pox, an artful wench, and, if apprehended, may attempt to pass as free, under the cloak of - "Mistress left free to pck and nyam". PHILIP, or CAPTAIN YM, her son, a creole, or a kind of idiot, but more knave than fool. NED, her brother, of a yellow complexion, a creole, marked $S$ on one shoulder, an artful rascal, and a great rogue and runaway: The above three negroes are partly harboured about Miss Fleming's Red Hills, (now Miss Good's) amongst their friends in town, or the King's Land, St. John's. HARRIET, calls herself KITTY, marked S, black complexion, short and stout, pretends to be purblind, but has the full faculty of her sight ; she is either harboured in Port-Royal, at Bonville, in St. Ann's, or about Mr. Evanson's, or Mr. Robert James mountain, at which latter place her husband, named Duke Thomas, has a brother named Phaeton. Whoever apprehends any of the above slaves, shall have a Pistole for each of them, on delivery to the subscriber, or lodging them in any workhouse. All persons harbouring \&c. are cautioned from harbouring \&c. and Four Doubloons will be paid on conviction \&c. on applying to the proprietor.  
RD. POORE (Saint Jago de la Vega Gazette, 21 January 1809).  
Juddy was not free to gather and sell the tops and the 'straw'- the name given to the leaves - of the sugar cane left on the ground when the plant had been cut and taken to the mill (Blachette, 1826, p. 28-9; Dureau, 1852; Roughley, 1823), the activity meant by the word 'pick' in Jamaican Creole (Cassidy, Le Page, 1967,