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will be seen as this story proceeds.

If you are awake at a late hour of the

evening at Port-au-Prince you will hear

a dull, monotonous sound wafted down

the heavy air from the direction of that

portion of the town which lies near the

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

of the bamboula or Congo drum—weird,

uncanny and suggestive. The beats

are low and at regular intervals.

Black men and women dance the un­

couth measures they witnessed in their

childhood, the same as their fathers

and mothers beheld in their childhood

in Africa. To dance the bamboula is

one of the few apparent pastimes the

Haytian negro enjoys. The 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 great detail the

case of the Bizzoton cannibals who

were executed at Port-au-Prince for

the murder of a child at the vaudaux

gathering. As I have heard well-in­

formed Haytians, who \|pre or ought to

be familiar with the whole story, deny

the authority of the affaire Bizzoton, 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-Princ

answered sententious^: "The story

true. Go to He will show you

a photograph of the accused which waa

taken after the trial."

I soon afterward had the opportunity

of studying the faces of the criminals.

Tley were Jeanne Pelle, who was

mamanloi Neveide Francois, Beyard

Prosper and Roseide Sumera, women,

and Julius Nicholas, Floreal Apollon,

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The Worthington advance. (1889). Worthington, Minn., 1889-04-18. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85025620/1889-04-18/ed-1/?sp=2

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The Worthington advance, 1889-04-18.