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'The Bight of Leogane is a horseshoe Cape St Nicholas is the caulker on the northern heel Cape Tiberoon, the ditto on the south Port au Prince is the tip at the toe towards the east Conaives, Leogane, Petit Trouve, &c. &c. &c. are the nails, and the Island of Gonave is the frog. Now every human being who knows that a horse has four legs and a tail of course this includes all the human race, excepting tailors and sailors must understand this at once; it is palpable and plain, although no man could have put it so perspicuously, excepting my friend William Cobbettt or myself.
To make a long story short, Massa Aaron was boned, but his friends were obdurate, so we all weighed that night; the Tinker bearing up for Jamaica, while we kept by the wind, steering for Conaives in St Domingo.
This was the garrison of Port au Prince, but neither the personal appearance of the troops, nor their appointments, were at all equal to those of King Henry's well dressed and well drilled cohorts that we saw at Conaives.
By this time the cold grey streaks of morning appeared in the eastern horizon, and soon after the day broke; and by two o'clock in the afternoon, both corvette and schooner were at anchor at Conaives.
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