168 T E us or '

 Lamartinibre, less afflicted at his defeat than at
reduced Port-au-Prince into ashes, hastened to intrench
in Croix-des-Bouquets, a little tohe north; a poi
rounded by moats cut in a very hard soil. There hew
for by Dessalines, who had come up too late to defend
That chief, who had the West under his command,
bold, turbulent, and ferocious spirit; now from reven
from ambition, he imbrued his hands in the blood of bot
men and black men. Hunger, thirst, fatigue, and loss
he seemed made to endure as if by a peculiarity of conetl
His air was fierce, his step oblique, his look sanguinary
face, furrowed with incisions, indicated the coast of
his birthplace. Under that terrible aspect he cone
impenetrable dissimulation. His barbarous eloquence
expressive signs rather than in words. What is strange
destiny is, that he was a savage, a slave, a soldier, a
and died, when an emperor, under the dagger of a B
When he learnt that Port-au-Prince had escaped from
gration, he turned pale, scolded, and roared with wrath.
 Boudet, intending to Ibllow up his'victory, dew to Croix
Bouquets, where he was awaited by those two formidable c
But Dessaline. understood his I-usiness tooy well to encounter,
French general in set battle array. Knowing how by bold
rapid movements to deceive as well as es..ape from an e
he outflanked Boudet, ant getting in his rear, set on fire
gane, a charming ..ity built, on a promontory, before the in
ers could arrive in the vicinity. The flames which de
that city rejoiced the soul of the barbarian, but did not co
him for the escape of Port-au-Prince; he meditated fresh a4
flagrations.
 While the North and the West were theatres of fire a
carnage, the East and the South submitted without the end4
ance of calamity. General Kerverseau, on presenting himsu
before Santo Domingo, found the inhabitants the more dispao
to receive him, because in perilous missions in Santo Doming
he had acquired a reputation for prudence and honor. K1


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