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Fig. 114. — In Port-au-Prince are the Champs de Mars and the adjoining Place 

 1' Independence with their brilliantly white plaster government buildings in the back- 

 ground. When framed with the distant thunder-capped mountains and the azure sea 

 a most beautiful view is presented to the unaccustomed northern eye. 



Fu;. 115. — Sizable natural caves in Haiti frequently take on a local name of Voute 

 l'Eglise (grotto of worship). In these caves are carried on animistic rituals commonly 

 known as Voodooism. The cave shown in the illustration, near Miragoane high up on the 

 cleft of the stone escarpment, is too small for use as a " church cave." Jt did, however, 

 yield many sackfuls of animal bones brought there by owls. 



