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 tude of victims without distinction of age or sex to effrectt
 ruin. The number of sufferers was greatly augmented be
 colonists by a species of rivalry denounced the peaceful sla
 of other colonists, so that it became almost the sole business.
 Rochambeau to order or even to devise punishments; thbkI
 and the land were covered with them. The unfortunate ba
 were bound together and then thrown into the sea to perishl
 they came up to the surlate and made their way to the sh
 they were in sport pursued and miasacred. The exeenti
 were varied : now the blacks were beheadedl, now they
 dragged down into the depths I.ly the weight of a shot tied<
 their feet; and now they were 6tillt.'l hy sulphur on shipboard
 Among the number of these victims were female prie-sts, who.
 worshipped African relish idols. That veneration Ibr the gods:
 of their fathers was punished with death; so little d1i-o unbelie.
 guarantee toleration. A French General, touched with cosw
 passion at the approaching death of rn., of1 these superstitioUA
 but well-meaning women, implore.d that her litf might be spare'
 Rochambean, taking into his hands the pigmy idols of her wO*
 ship, said, How can I save the lifet of one who worships these)

 attention on sick Frenrh soldiers. Unhappy women I the
 charity had no other recompense than the punishment whid
 is reserved for the vikert crimes. Bale in.-ratitude of the coC
 mander I Here, again, on which side L the moral superiority
S Oh, civilization, what crimes have been committed in thy naml
 Ye weak one", whose IEeble knees" a Christian authority com
 mands Christian men to strengthen (teb. xii. 12), how haMa
 indignities and woes been heaped on your heads, simply be
 cause ye wore weak, not only by s,:epties and scofl'trs, but evi
 by prol'eed believers in a divine religion!
 The numerous executions which began at Cape City sooat
 extended to other place. Port-au-Prince had its salt water
 made bloody, and scalTibds were ,rectel and loaded within ant
 without its walls. The hand of tyranny spread terror au
 death over the shirer- of the North and the West. As thi


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