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Updated: May 26, 2025
The Cacos leadership had devolved upon Benoit, a highly educated negro, who had secured the alliance of "the Black Pope" and Chu-Chu, the two lieutenants of Charlemagne. Upon Benoit fell the duty of "chasing the white men into the sea" and exterminating the Americans, just as Toussaint l'Ouverture drove the English, and Dessalines, Christophe and Pétion drove the French, a century before.
"One hundred and twenty-two dead Cacos were found in and about the city; bodies found along the line of retreat in the next few days raised the total of known dead to 176. There were numerous prisoners, among them the famous chieftain, Chu-Chu."
Haven't I Polly?" calling to his sister who was patiently nursing a child with a bumped knee on a bench near by. "Yes!" answered Polly, "but don't be too show-offy." Peter disregarded this sisterly rebuke. "Well, anyhow it is and I have. And this is a chu-chu track." "Chu-chu track!" echoed his admirers who didn't at all mind his showing off.
George laughs out of a cloud of dust, "Give her her head; don't you see she likes it?" and Chu-Chu seems to like it, and, whether bitten by native tarantula into native barbarism or emulous of the roan, "blood" asserts itself, and in a moment the peaceful servitude of years is beaten out in the music of her clattering hoofs. The creek widens to a deep gully.
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