Hand County press

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will be «een us this story proceeds.

If you are awake at a late hour of tho

evening at Port-au-Prince you will hear

a dull, monotonous sound wafted down

tiie heavy air from the direction of that

portion of the town which lies r.eur the

plain of tho Cul-de-Sac. It is the noise

of tho bamboula or Congo drum—weird,

uncanny and suggestive. Tho beats

are low and at regular intervals.

Black men and women dance the un

couth measures they witnessed in their

childhood, tho same ns their fathers

and mothers liehcld in their childhood

in Africa. To dance the bamboula is

one of the few apparent pastimes tho

Haytian negro enjoys. Tho drum is

also an invariable associate to a vau

daux meeting. Without it the black

man would be bereft of his closes*

intimate friend.

St. John relates in groat detail the

case of tho Rizzoton cannibals who

we.-c executed at Port-au«lVince for

the murder of a child at the vuudaux

gathering. As 1 have hoard well-in

formed Haytians, who VJpre or ought to

be familiar with tho whole story, deny

tho authority of the affaire Bltzoton, I

took steps to discover on my own ac

count the truth of the alleged hor

rible and disgusting crime. The

person I addressed at Port-au-Prino

answered sententiously: “The story i

true. Go to B Ho will show you

a photograph of the accused which w as

taken after tho trial."

I soon afterward hud tho opportunity

of study ing the faces of the criminals.

Hey wero Jeanne Pelle, who was

manmnloi; Neveldo Francois, Beyard

Prosper and Koscido Suinora, women,

and Julius Nicholas, Fiorenl Apollon,

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Hand County press. (1889). Miller, Dakota [S.D.], 1889-04-18. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn98062948/1889-04-18/ed-1/?sp=2

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Hand County press, 1889-04-18.