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Updated: June 20, 2025
He had been, for a whole day, beset with the idea that the way to catch a voudou was to catch him; and as he had caught numbers of them on both sides of the tropical and semi-tropical Atlantic, he decided to try his skill privately on the one who his experience told him was likely to visit Agricola's doorstep to-night.
Certainly, as to that, the Capitain might well have that quietude of mind which enabled him to find occupation in perfecting the edge of his penknife and trimming his nails in the dark. By and by he put up the little tool and sat looking out upon the prospect. The time of greatest probability had not come, but the voudou might choose not to wait for that; and so he kept watch.
But the truth is, sir, Bras-Coupé is a voudou." "Well, and suppose he is; what of it? Only hush; do not let his master know it. It is nothing; all the blacks are voudous, more or less." "But he declines to dress himself has painted himself all rings and stripes, antelope fashion." "Tell him Agricola Fusilier says, 'dress immediately!"
He fully confirmed the reports of its barbarous condition, and declared it to be in a rapid decadence, as regarded every desirable element of civilization. In the country, a short distance from either Gonaives, Jacmel, or Port-au-Prince, where the mass of the negro population live, Voudou worship and cannibalism are quite common at the present time.
The lady immediately looked startled and alarmed and again dropped her eyes in silence. The quadroon had to speak again. "We will burn a candle." Aurora trembled. "No," she succeeded in saying. "Yes," said Palmyre, "you must get your rent money." But the charm which she was meditating had no reference to rent money. "She knows that," thought the voudou.
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