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Less fortunate were we in our researches for any document 

 which could in any way throw any light, direct or indirect, 

 upon the former history of St. Paul. The only piece of 

 writing which we found that had reference to the island, 

 was a licence drawn up during the reign of Louis Philippe, 

 dated 20th February, 1846, to M. Adam, of St. Denis (in the 

 Island of Bourbon), to proceed to carry out a certain under- 

 taking in the schooner "jL« Mouche^'" 30 tons' burthen, under 

 the protection of the French flag. ^* La Mouche^^' is the same 

 boat in which Viot had made so many voyages to and fro 

 between St. Denis and St. Paul. This document, which the 

 poor old Frenchman drew out one evening from a drawer thickly 

 strewn with dust, insensibly led the conversation to the quon- 

 dam owners of St. Paul, and thence naturally to an enquiry, on 

 our part, as to the number of graves which dotted this romantic 

 offshoot of Pere la Chaise. *' The climate is far too healthy, 

 and the island far too little frequented, to admit of there being 

 many graves in St. Paul," replied Viot. Of the blacks, whom 



dans les Differentes epoques de I'Histoire : A. Bouillon : from tlie Piinting Estab- 

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 Conde, by Louis Joseph, Prince de Conde, at present in England, London, 1st May, 

 1807 ;" " Precis des Journees 15, 16, 17, and 18 Juin, 1815, ou Fin de la Vie Politique 

 de Napoleon Buonaparte, i^ar M. Giraud, auteiir de la " Campagne de Paris en 1814 ; " 

 Paris, 1815, 1st vol. 8; "Histoii'e des Guerres des Gaulois et des Franc ais enltalie, 

 avec le tableau des evenemens ci\dls et militaires qui les accompagnerent et leur 

 influence sur la civilisation et les progres de I'esprit humain." "Deiniis Belle^^se 

 jusqu'a la mort de Louis XII., pai* lex Adjutant-General Auguste Jube, tribun." 

 "Depuis Louis XII., jusqu'au Traito d'Ainiens, par Joseph Scrv-an, General de 

 Division. Dediees a S. M. TEmpereiu-. Paris, an. XIII. (1805)." "Manuel des 

 habitans de St. Dominique, contenant uu precis de riiistou'e de cette isle depuis sa 

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