Notes on Haiti, made during a residence in that republic . s inarrear of their pay from extraordinary fit of apoplexy gave confidence to the dis-satisfied, and revolt broke out, and terminated,as is well known, in the destruction of the mo-narchy. On the shore of Petite Anse, immediatelybelow high-water mark, the remains of coffinsare exposed to the view of the passenger. Oninquiry, I was told that they contained thebodies of the Haitians who underwent the^ Noyade under Le Clerc and Rochambeau ;that there was a vessel, with an open bottom,into which were consigned the unfortunatewret
Notes on Haiti, made during a residence in that republic . s inarrear of their pay from extraordinary fit of apoplexy gave confidence to the dis-satisfied, and revolt broke out, and terminated,as is well known, in the destruction of the mo-narchy. On the shore of Petite Anse, immediatelybelow high-water mark, the remains of coffinsare exposed to the view of the passenger. Oninquiry, I was told that they contained thebodies of the Haitians who underwent the^ Noyade under Le Clerc and Rochambeau ;that there was a vessel, with an open bottom,into which were consigned the unfortunatewretches who were doomed to death, thatsailed every night with the land breeze, andreturned the following day with the sea breeze,having disposed of her cargo; that, with thetide, the bodies that escaped the voracity ofthe sharks were cast on shore ; and it was apart of the duty of the Haitian soldiers tocollect and inter the bodies of their statement may be true, but I suspect thatin such a climate twenty-four years would not * See Appendix (F.). SANS SOUCI CITADEL. 169 leave even the miserable vestiges of coffins thatwere visible. I rather suspect that some oldburying-gromid has been exposed. The President Boyer narrowly escaped thisfate, through the intercession of the Frenchgeneral Boye, who is, I have understood, nowin Egypt; and similar tales are rumoured inevery part of Haiti, with circum^stances of ag-gravation, that it is unnecessary, without fullevidence, to repeat. I am, however, inclined togive credit to the atrocity, though I doubt itsconnexion of the fact on which the statementI received was founded. The French have leftthere, as well as in Germany, Spain, and Por-tugal, fearful records ; yet whenever they againappear, a veil of oblivion is readily thrownover the past. 30th March.—As a matter not to be omitted,I formed a party to visit the ruins of Sans Souci,or Millot, the former residence of Christophe,in the time of his greatest splendour, and the^ Ci
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