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with blood. The numbers of victims were so conahera 0
the inhabitants refused to eat fish, lest they should feed ont
of their own color.
 Many blacks, of whom some had witnessed these a
 and others, who, in the confusion, had, by swimming or
 escaped from the hands of the executioners, went to join'
ranks of the insurgents in difler.nt places. Often, under'
shade of a tree, or under the point of a ro k, these figie
might be seen recounting to their companions the punisin
they had witneed, or sutfi:rid. How great never the cr
it was csxanerated in their hvyprholical phr.arelogy.
crowd listened with intense curiosity, silrnee, and horror;
the narrators were interrupted by questions repcerting theb
of a child, or a sister, who had died on the gilbct, or had b
tossed into these. At these frightfil accounts, the audIi
shed tears, but they were tears of ven-gance. Some shout
"Shall we go down into our tombs without ha\;ing avenged thed
No! their bones would repulse ours." Othe-rs, by gestures
cries, not satisfied with having carried lire. and sword over I
lowlands, stirred earh other up to deeds of carnage and devi
station. Vengeance of a certain barbaric grandeur burst falr
In listening to one of there narratives. Paul L'Ouverture, ft
brother of Toussaint, learned that, without any reason, I
wife, who lived at the C(ape, in the peace of her own home, ti
been drowned. He iell into a madness of revenge which gi
nourished, and which nothing appeased. lie captured, ti
Fort Dauphin. a shipwrecked vessel, on board of which i
thirty French passengers. He took them, and having led rt
to one of the principal entrances to Cape City, he piriles
immolated them all to the manes of his innocent wife, takl
pains to put on a pogt an inscription, which stated that
death of a beloved partner had extorted from his grief a ve
geance worthy of a proud, loving, and deeply afflicted aso
Truly, ind-e'l, is revenue blind as well as ruthless. Whoi
describe, who can dare to contemplate, the cvils of slaveT
Sixteen of the bravest generals of Tousaaint L'Ouvertil