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218 THE LIFE OF i

foreign ships and visitors, which were interpreted into
asense of civil and political weakneL i. This adverse
sion 1bund its way into the minds ol'tli t blacks. so thattH
of the colonial army Icamer incrnaingly difficult to
Thus what at Gret was the- Captain-General'r power pr
source of weak ',.-s and embarrassment. To provide a
he attempted to incorporate the colonial troops with the'
forcemcnt.s that tame from France, but the prejudices of
peans renle-red the plan all but rnuatory. Yet, if it
dangerous to have I entire large bodies o' black. it, was
dangerous to dis .hare. and dilamii them at onr.,. Leelei
no re.curc.e but time, anid ,ought to goiern by dividing.*'
cordingly, h, to,-.k are to employ black soldiers only in :
detachments? and regarded even desertion with satisi
He tould not, however, ti;el at eas unless Iti- knew tha
blacks were resuming their arir a cultural labors; and, t
sending them back to tl-e plantafiona, he received asist
from some of their chirl<. he was made ei.nsible otl the w
such an influene as that whibh Tousaint L'Ouverture'
exerttd before the war, anid effeted hii purpose only
limited Ceale.
- These ditiiulties, however, though in themwelvs not
were invionsdlerableo i-ompared with those which sprang fl
tirribll malady with which the iHland, an'd especially its
pian inhabitant., was now %isittl. 'The yelloww fever,
had already proved destru-tive., broke out with great viol
at the same time at P'rt-au-Prince and at the Cape. It:
pe:arcd there in a I'brm unu-uall. repulsive and deadly.
s~iz_.d persons who ere in good hPalth, without any
nation. Sometimes leath was the inm.-iiate coniequel
l-ippy those who were immediately i arrived olf! Ordlina 
r was -low ;n it- pr-',._r, *s as wrell as frightull in it- intlitid
Tci diJicr.l..r hv-ran in tli brain. Iy an ..ppr.-'i'e pain accdl
piiniud or lijlltow.d b, fl.e .r. Thei p-itient w'rj devoured w
buirnin tlhirst The stomach, distra.'ti-d I'y pins, in tj
sought relief by efforts ,j dislurden itself Fiery veins streali
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