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ceeding. However, the risks passed me by.

ana i was repaid oy naving the chance or

studying the most singular and interesting

people l nave ever been among. Haiti is

emphatically a land of surprises. It is

possible to be present at a ceremony closely

allied to human sacrifice within a mile of

an electric light plant.

Human sacrifice! Central Africa, some of

the coral islands of the south seas and

Terra del Fuego are, you would say, the

only spots where such things still occur.

Also Haiti.

This is a country of which, by speaking

or electric light, i may give you an er

roneous impression. Outside the coast

towns no white man lives; the interior is

delivered up to the blacks, with their

hereditary customs of snake worship or

voodoo, as they call It, their heathenism

being little modified by the teachings of

the few itinerant Roman Catholic clergy.

The worship of the sacred snake, which

Sir Richard Burton refers to as "the abom

inable orgies enacted before the voodoo

king and queen," jostles with the tenets of

Christianity m the heart or this almost

unpenetrated country.

When you reach the deep Interior there

are overgrown tracks winding away Into

the mountains. Traveling by these at night

you come suddenly upon dark figures twist

ing and dancing in the red glow of mid-

forcst fires.

In a won!, it is a strip of West Africa

transplanted to the Caribbean sea.

Far away among the mountains I came

across a man whose features and ideas. In

spite of years spent in his wattled sun

rotted hut, testified to another and less

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The Indianapolis journal. (1900). Indianapolis [Ind.], 1900-10-22. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82015679/1900-10-22/ed-1/?sp=2

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The Indianapolis journal, 1900-10-22.