He went with a young American demonstrator
from Harvard.
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It was a memorable excursion. They rode from Cap Haytien for a
day's journey along dusty uneven tracks through a steaming plain of
luxurious vegetation, that presented the strangest mixture of
unbridled jungle with populous country. They passed countless
villages of thatched huts alive with curiosity and swarming with
naked black children, and yet all the time they seemed to be in a
wilderness. They forded rivers, they had at times to force
themselves through thickets, once or twice they lost their way, and
always ahead of them, purple and sullen, the great mountain peak
with La Ferriere upon its crest rose slowly out of the background
until it dominated the landscape. Long after dark they blundered
upon rather than came to the village at its foot where they were to
pass the night. They were interrogated under a flaring torch by
peering ragged black soldiers, and passed through a firelit crowd
into the presence of the local commandant to dispute volubly about
their right to go further.
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