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 d stopped the impetuous career of Ruxhambcau. He
 ",gained time, while Cbristophe, by a rigorouss defence.
 the ad\ante of De-,tburneautx and of lardy. Thus
 Saved himself from being surrounded on the plain
 lives. Like a nan o' genius, hc had .hosen the place
 t time of the combat, and in a .riiis obtained great ad-

 dring toward hi. centre, Toussaint pitched his camp on
 ks of Esther. There, surrounded by his soldiers and
 ly, and co\ rcd with a cloak, be h.ul only a plank on
 h to sit and to Ileccp. II- pa:s.,-d the greater part of the
 t in despati.hing ord.-- writti'n n;th hii. own hand, and in
 from po-t to pa,-t. The n,:.xt iI.iy he aent his wife and
 y to the mountain known \ i, the nmIUIn of Grand Cabow,
 b runn in a line with lthl Artibionii.. lHis i-it to Esther,
 ever, was nly, Ibr a tnmlpornar pi'rp'-e II- "as too good
 edier to meti tihe- con,-cntratnlI br .r' A.'f the n.ni y in a
 Country, wher, h with all hluI" lur. I. would not ha'%: Ilten
 F to present hii 'omnparaii ,ly il.n..nutie nrrmy ifrm being
 hed. I s ability to ofler any ti, I. nI.t~l ri-;-tar;n .:.- had arisen
 F the juldgmcint lne hal tipl.y..i in making trh> mountains
 Sseat of the warfare. Justific-d in this policy by the success
 h he had pained, he determined.to evacuate Esther,
 l to collect tr.)psi in another nmount-ai,'us stronghold,
 more favorable than that in whi.h he had defeated Ro-
 nbeau.
 A review of the operation? rf Toussa;nt L'Ouverture, from
 i point at whi.h our narrative has arrived, howss that the
Mthod of his wariare 'coni-tid in lpait L' or Rcitie resistance,
cikh, after spreading fire and deva-tati,-n bullrce the enemy's
Oich, withdrew from thr co .t and male the mountains its
ptre and its bulwark. That thi- plan .as inarefully weighed
|d well laid out, may I.e ipre-Siumn-d from a knowledge of Tous-
t t's character. It was ralo carritl into .ffeet as thoroughly
ei rcumstanu.-i permitted. I', in any respect, it failed, the
lae was owing to no remisneoc s on the part of the great