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Making a last desperate effort, the Haytian "marquis" gripped his antagonist round the waist as he previously gripped me, dragging him down beside him again; and then, as the two came with all their might against the side of the ship where the port flap was loose, the whole of the planking gave way, and poor Captain Alphonse, with that scoundrel the black "marquis," crashed through the splintering wood together, falling with a heavy splash overboard into the sea beneath, going to the bottom locked in each other's arms a terrible ending to the terrible episode of this, their last meeting.
"You have lived here long?" "Long enough," Witherbee answered. "Five years." "You know the natives, then?" "Can't help knowing them. There are quite a lot of them, you see, and there's almost no one else. Do you know negroes at all?" "Very little." "You'd better study them a bit before you before you do anything you have it in mind to do the Haytian negro in particular.
"Till us what you did, sure, afther the poor maimed crayture was murthered by that Haytian divvle. Faith, I loathe the baste. I hate him like pizen, though I haven't sane him yit, more's the pity; but it'll be a bad job for him when I do clap my peepers on him!"
The word hurricane is a European adaptation of a Carib word, borrowed by the Haytian Indians from the natives of the Antilles. The inhabitants of Hayti do not agree in the statements which they make concerning their climate.
Every year a colored gentleman and scholar is becoming less and less of a rarity thanks to the existence of the Haytian Republic, and the increasing liberality of the world! Yet if a person of refinement from Hayti, Brazil, or other countries, which we deem less enlightened than our own, should visit us, the very boys of this republic would dog his footsteps with the vulgar outcry of "Nigger!
"After the treaty, by which France recognized the Haytian Republic, Gobseck was one of the members of the commission appointed to liquidate claims and assess repayments due by Hayti; his special knowledge of old fortunes in San Domingo, and the planters and their heirs and assigns to whom the indemnities were due, had led to his nomination.
"The `marquis' was of the belief that we were bound for Cuba, so he declared at all events at the moment, and he asked Captain Alphonse with the utmost indifference to give him and his companions a passage thither, assuring him that he would be handsomely rewarded for so doing by some of their friends belonging to the Haytian revolutionary party, who had established their headquarters at Havana.
"`Ohe, below there! cried out the Haytian in reply to this, addressing his companions in the waist, who, I noticed, were gradually edging themselves more and more aft. `Do you hear that, my brave boys? We are going to land at last. Get the boat ready! "This was evidently a signal, for he shouted out the last words in a still higher key than that in which he had been speaking.
We had not ridden on our homeward journey above three miles, when we overtook a tall good looking negro, dressed in white Osnaburg trowsers, rolled up to his knees, and a check shirt. He wore neither shoes nor stockings, but his head was bound round with the usual handkerchief, over which he wore a large glazed cocked hat, with a most conspicuous Haytian blue and red cockade.
That act of the Governor, added to the great confidence he had placed in the French authorities, was the principal cause of the feeble resistance the French encountered in Hayti. Indeed, his confidence in these authorities was such, that he had discharged the greater part of the regular troops, and sent them back to the tillage of the soil." Haytian papers, page 158.
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