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I forbade my men to disperse even my dog which always went ahead had to follow a few paces

I forbade my men to disperse; even my dog which always went ahead, had to follow a few paces behind me; at the slightest sound he would lift his ears and stop: he could smell if there were men about. We walked thus in good order following the shore, which forms many pretty bays. On the left we skirted woods where the most profound solitude reigns. They back on to a low chain of mountains whose summit we could see: this land is not very good. We saw polch?rees, imported from India, and further evidence that man had settled here before. I had taken the precaution of bringing some bottles of water and I was right, as all the streams here had dried out.I was worried about my black’s wound, which bled profusely; I walked slowly, and we stopped at four o’clock.

As night was approaching, I did not want to walk round the Morne, so I took a short cut through a wood across the isthmus joining the two mountains This isthmus is nothing more than a small hill Standing on this hillock, I met a black belonging to M. Le Normand, whose house I was on my way down to, and which was about a quarter of a league away. This man went ahead while I stopped and looked with delight at the prospect of the two seas. A house built in this place would be in a charming situation; but there is no water. As I walked down the hill, a black ran up to me with a jug of cool fresh water and announced that I was awaited at the house I arrived. It was a long hut in the form of a palisade, covered with latan leaves. The whole plantation consisted of eight slaves, with nine members of the family: master and mistress, five children, a young cousin and a friend The husband was away.

That is what I learned as I entered.The whole house was a single room; in the middle, a kitchen; at one end, the stores and the bedding of the servants; at the other end, the matrimonial bed, covered with a bedspread on which a hen was brooding its eggs; under the bed, ducks; pigeons in the leaves of the roof, and three huge dogs at the door. On the wall all the instruments used in the home and in the fields were hanging on hooks. I was truly shocked to find a very pretty woman in this miserable dwelling She was French, born into a good family, as was her husband. They had come here several years before, to seek their fortune; they had abandoned their relations, their friends, their country to spend their days in a wild place, where one saw only the sea and the frightening cliffs of the Morne Brabant. But the air of contentment and the good nature of this young mother of a family seemed to make all who got close to her happy.