. L'uccello . , il prigioniero era custodito dalla gratitudine; era stato generoso a molti dei neri; un negressante che aveva protetto, lo avvertiva del suo pericolo, lo aiutava a fuggire da esso. Tutta la sua vita ha esitato a lungo quella donna, per mostrare la sua gratitudine verso di lei; non l'ha scoperta fino a circa quattordici anni dopo-rioni, nel suo ultimo viaggio; allora viveva negli Stati Uniti. Per tornare: Anche se fuori dalla prigione, non fu salvato.vagando in disparte nella foresta, di notte, senza aguide, aveva motivo di temere i Maroons, quei nemici im-placable dei bianchi, che avrebbero chilledhim, dentro

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. The bird . , the prisoner was guarded by gratitude;he had been bountiful to many of the blacks; a negresswhom he had protected, warned him of his peril, andassisted him to escape from it. All his life long hesought that woman, to show his gratitude towards her;he did not discover her until some fourteen years after-wards, on his last voyage; she was then living in theUnited States. To return: though out of prison, he was not saved.Wandering astray in the forest, at night, without aguide, he had cause to dread the Maroons, those im-placable enemies of the whites, who would have killedhim, in ignorance that they were murdering the best * It was with tliis exordium Toussaint commenced his appeal toNapoleon Bonaparte. so now THE AUTHOR WAS LED TO ^^M:. friend of tlieir race. Fortune is the boon of youth;he escaped every danger. Having discovered a goodhorse, whenever the blacks issued from their hiding-places, one touch of the spear, a wave of the hat, acry: Advanced guard of General Toussaint! and thiswas enoucrh. At that formidable name all took toflight, and disappeared as if by enchantment. Such was the tenderness of my fathers soul, thathe did not mthdraw his regard from the great manwho had misunderstood him. When, at a later period, he saw him in France, abandoned by everybody, awretched prisoner in a. fort of the Jura, where heperished of cold and misery, * he alone was faithful tohim. Despite his errors, despite the deeds of violenceinseparable from the grand and terrible part which thatman had played, he revered in him the daring pioneerof a race, the creator of a world. He coiTespondedwith him until his death, and afterwards with hisfamily. A singular chance ordained that my father shouldbe engaged in the isle of Elba when

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