TOUSSAINT L'OUVEBTURE.


mhlores resounded with cries and lamentations. On land
pp were about to fall iqto the hands of persons who had been
Slaves; on sea those were about to become prisoners to
llaglish. A number intrusted their lives and their fortunes
iegile barks.
4 they sailed from the island, Rochambeau, the soldiers, and
. colonists saw the tops of the mountains glow with fire.
ietime the blaze had been kindled for war and devastation;
t the blacks lighted up their highlands in token of their
f Freedom had been wrested out of the hands of their foes.
Wry heart beat with the thought. The dark past was wholly
se; the future was radiad with hope. "'Freedom I free-
mil" ran in joyous echoes from mountain-top to mountain-
ptill the whole island thouted Freedom "
Thus ended this deplorable expedition. In less than two
am, sixty thousand person-s lell; filleen hundred were officers
superior rank; eight hundred wereomedical men ; three-and-
irty thousand were soldiers, io whom not a sixth perished in
title. The attempt at subjugation cost the blacks more than
ive thousand men, of' whom about four thousand found
tth at the hands of executioners of various kinds.