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OaI whomsoever he suspects; he knows when to fly, and he
we how to cover his flight with the deserts which he leaves
 nd him. He goes about the affair better than we did at
time of our disembarkation. If, then, instead of fighting,
it system of resistance had consisted in flight, and in well
iming the blacks, you would never have been able to over-
ke us. So said old Toussaint; no one believed him. We
bueoisd arms; the pride of making use of them was our ruin.
.lese new insurgents fellow the system of Toussaint; if they
dsist in it we shall have difficulty to reduce them.'
hi General Chrisophe urged me not to return that evening to
6t Dauphin; saying, that the revolters, having attacked his
ha in the plain, were probably informed of my journey. I
haked him; but, urging that the danger would be greater to-
tferow, I said that I should return as soon as I had seen the
limeral-rn-hief. General Leilere acquainted me with his
liancholv situation, congratulating himself in seeing none bat
hdits among the new chiefs of the insurrection, and added,
it, in the feeble state of the tbreres of the mother country, he
ia glad to find tho generals of color still faithful to France.
h. my way to Saint Michel, I stopped at General Christophe's,
io, hearing discharges of fire-arms in the mountains, repeated
Request that I would not that evening press on to Fort
hiphin. I persisted in my intention. He then ordered six
Pmis guides to accompany me. Bear in mind,' be said to
repeatedly, that you are escorting a general whom T ea-
 and love.'
iWe set out. Of a sudden, the guides, who led the way
Starches, stopped before a detachment of thirty blacks, who
 concealed themselves in a ditch. Forthwith one heard
 words, Halt stop! halt!' Shots succeeded. The.com-
 g officer meanwlhili recognized in Don Diego Polanco,
 was with me, an old friend. We were saved. But r
 .ecn reason to believe that the chiefs of the colonial
 and the colored generals had communications with the
 uts.