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356 NOTES AND TESTIMONIS.

 8d. It appears that he was abundantly supplied with I'
and artificial light, (fr in two months these supplies coast
hundred and fifly-Tix franeq, which. M. Ghiod assures me, i i.
very large allowance, Ibr wood then was much cheaper, he seC Bq,
than at the present day; and now several lights and two fire .'I
could be sustained six month? (fr ordinary no'.essities at an et r :
pense not exceeding two hundred franc.
 4th. That be had a servant oIr a while after his arrival,
whether a negro or a Frtnhnman. doe not appear. From the
general chara, ter of the. inutru. tions in rft.ren.'c to him, and in
the absence o'f ian\ prccial pirvi-_ion for th.:- access to him, of
one of hlii own col.:.r, ii i; to be pr.s;um.,i that it was a French-
man.
 5th. That he was allowed to write and have some luxuries,
such as nutmeg, sugar, hath, &v. These, I presume, came out
of the four francs a day allowed him frum the tirst Ibr board,
washing, and mending.
 6tr. It is apparent, unfortunately, suggsrs ,t M. Girod, from
the moderate sum of I 'ilr. 7'c., v[Lhi. h the elffitsi supplied by
the Goemrnment brought after only 'secn months' u'e, that his
wardrobe was not probalily sulpplit-d ni it -houl'l have been for
such a severe climate.
 7th. And, finally, it appr'ars that a woman was provided to
keep his apartment in orldr.
 The order tlurridding T.ousaint to ;r-- any one not attached
to the service of the garri-,',n c-ms to have hben unnecessarily
rigorous, buitit w i prol.:d.ly aimed at Rignud, Toussaint's
ablest andl mort trusted aill in S.int Domin.n, who was captured
ver' econ after his hief and sent t.:. the Fort de Joux, where
he remained until after Toiiuaint', death, when he was released.
They never saw eath other, though sleeping so near together,
after they separated in Saint Domingo.
 Upon the wall, o' Touissaint'- apartment I was surprised to
find but one incripti'in from the hand, rof' isitors; that was the
name of Catalinr Nau, a man whom I rcmcmbe-r to have met
at Port-au-Il'init i' n I l'.-I tliTr, i,: d.lirthargedl l the functions