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 defence." The officers declared that he might rely on
 living or dead.
 more destructive bands than tho-e of Dossalines, this
 aot pot could not hae be'n icontided. In his retreat,
 feroi ious monrstr had dragged away from their homes all
 Whites he would seize, whom the sword and the musket had
 S These were i-onducted fo Verettes-, Mirebalais, and
 tRivikre, towns lyihb alont the banks of the Artibonite.
 re were rnewedl the frightlul scenesof the first insurrection.
 m the sight of the conflagration which reduced into ashes the
 s and the ie-ld& at the toot of Mount Cahos, where Tous-
 I had entrnc-hrd himself, a va.t carnage was made of the
 'tes. Four hundred me-n w(re massan red at Mirebalais and
 *te Rivibre. In rio place war th,' .l.iughter so terrible as at
 village of Vter'tt,-.. At iln- nodl of Dri--line'. men who had
 a slaves, and who dreadel the nw s .errvitude with which
 y were threatened, slew scven Ihndred :of the poor wretches
 t Dessalin.s had. dra.ggd alter him. Th,: d.uw'ht>.r brrathed
 Last on the bo-.o ol' her .rxpirin nu.th r. Tlh, father was
 table to sate the son; the ion wa- unmall-- ) -J.: the Iather.
 re a si-.tcr died in the arms of a brother; hert, a nurse tried
 make her body a means of di-llt-n:o i.,r her infant; her milk
 lhd her blooul tfow-ed in one str-cam. Farther on, old men in
 lmin implored pit' from their former slave;, whom they called
 bF by nanm to bring ba.:k the rnemembrance of past acts of
"fndness. W\hol thmilie- w,-re. thus_ bathed in blood. More
Sfitghtful and mnre atrocious stdl wRs the sight when sons slew
ibheir fathers. thus revenging tlhem.s, lr.-s bfr the black blood of
'"teir mother, and the ntite-ct and dis aowal of their fathers.
iPo great was the fury of the blat ki an-I mulatto:s- that they
:e-.ven wreakd th<,ir race on d:omu-ti, animal whii h belonged to
Abe planter' ThIu the banks of the, Arribonite were covered
"yith fire and hlood. Bvfl.re tho arrival ul' the Frencih expedi-
:ion, al there was pe.ac:-lful, pr.>-proul and happy.
' The French ftlt de-p compaiion when, on coming up, they
beheld at Verettes so many vktims who still remained unburied,