Hence arose a repetition of petty delinquencies, which no vigilance could detect, and no justice reach.
Gardens were plundered, provisions pilfered, and the Indian corn stolen from the fields where it grew for public use.

Various were the measures adopted to check this depredatory spirit.

Criminal courts, either from the tediousness of their process, or from the frequent escape of culprits from their decision, were seldomer convened than formerly.

The governor ordered convict offenders either to be chained together or to wear singly a large iron collar with two spikes projecting from it, which effectually hindered the party from concealing it under his shirt; and thus shackled, they were compelled to perform their quota of work.
May, 1791.

Had their marauding career terminated here, humanity would have been anxious to plead in their defence; but the natives continued to complain of being robbed of spears and fishing tackle.