222 THE LIFE OF:

the ravishing tenderness of her looks. But around and
it-stivities, Death bore his funeral or, hes. The balls wl
ceased not to ,ivIe took pla e on the brink of the grave.'
dancers of to-night were deadl on the morrow. But the.
jo ous did she all>'i.t it airear. The&-." eht- s id, "art
L.L4t r.,iomcr nt; It u. pa. t, ll- in pl.-astiunr. "
 A- til,- h ior.nl-r rn',ed in ohilr ia,.e' an well as in the
of tlih C'ape anl'1 I',-t-au-Priune, there dlied every day, oat
and on scn, rnot .i. thlln f'r:m three tr. 'our hundred p
More atid more irrtr.llar in its rmp[trnim and its course,
fev.r L.iltl-d arnd d -ti.- the skill of tite physicians, who
together with their pjtilutr .
 The little attention which at firt was p:u;,l to funeral ri
 became less and les-, and sion was whl.,ll dic continued.
 dead bodies were put on tlhe oit.idle i:' th., dir'rsn and carried'
 by night. If anything could excite cumipai;on, it was too'j
 on some of those lived frame, th' sc-ars oef wounds rereivet'rj
 the battles of Europe, where I/,- had gainedr his fame who se
 those warriors and heroes to dite on a tli-tant, rerigm, and deas
 shore. As it was necessary to remoi ,v thei deal as soon as tW
 had breathed their la-tr. riom w.re.n- arrie~f off while yet aliii
 groans were heard in thll heaps of abandoned corpses, and fi.r
 the putrid mass se:imei roi' and returned to take their pl.
 nmong the living. As very many bodies were tos-ed into IM
 sea, the waves Iore th,:ni uip arnl down the harbor: or left thbW
 on the shore, painful memc.ntos to tpeetattor, and Ibod for biri
 and beasts of prey, while they added to the Ibul infection wil
 whilh the atmosphere was burdened. 3I
 During the prevalence of these accumulated disasters; "
 black population, proof against the pest, remained faithtil t
 the peace which had been forced on them and their venerate
 Ihietf Had they chosen to rise, the whole expedition wol.
 have perished. Their t rtue was more than abstinence fr
 self-avengement. With characteristic ho-pitality, they receive
 sick persons into their homes, and gave them unlooked-for aid
 they did more: they gave them tears and sympathy,- seeing i